Word: stupidity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...values of grown-up society--he is aggressively masculine, loves to create and destroy, to take a stand on honor. And so, when Lebrac is finally sent away from his village to a distant school, he says to a friend, "When we grow up we may be as stupid as they...
...opportunity for rapprochement and understanding." From Peking came birthday greetings signed by Mao and other Chinese leaders, expressing the hope that the split was "only temporary." Yet almost in the same breath, the Peking press called Khrushchev a traitor, "a dragon who changes his colors," and "even more stupid than the Americans and Chiang Kai-shek...
...shows that he walked erect. Despite his small brain size, he had a fairly high forehead, not a flat one like that of Zinjanthropus. He was probably about 4 ft. tall, but Dr. Leakey thinks that he used tools and weapons. Sometimes he may have killed and eaten his stupid cousin Zinjanthropus...
...that the FBI is stupid or malicious," said Zinn, "they're just cold.--They just don't care." To solve this problem he proposed a special federal police force, designed to enforce the Constitution in the South, to stand armed at the polling booths, and to follow civil rights workers wherever they go in the Second South. This force should not only enforce the law, but should try to act before--not after--people are shot...
Hitler's press boss was Max Amann, a stupid, brawling dwarf bullock who had been Corporal Hitler's wartime company sergeant. Amann had assembled a press empire of 59 dailies even before the party took power. For the sake of Nazi recognition, scores of nonparty papers agreed to print Nazi propaganda free and to take no ads from Jews. By way of disaster insurance, dozens of German advertisers cynically bought space in official Nazi organs. The German people were partly to blame, for they did not support the few honest papers that warned what Hitler...