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Word: stupidity (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last month, after the entire top echelon of the Plan Organization resigned because Justice Ministry gumshoes had brought all work to a standstill by asking "thousands of stupid, irrelevant and vexatious questions," Amini promised to take immediate action on Ebtehaj's case. More important, the Shah himself became a frequent visitor to a Teheran bowling alley owned by Mrs. Ebtehaj, promised to help her husband get out of jail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iran: End of a Tragicomedy | 6/22/1962 | See Source »

Partly as a result of the "shining example" of the Chicago experiment and partly from his own experience is led to make comments "The A student is very often stupid," and, "An awful lot and narrow students grind...

Author: By James R. Ullyot, | Title: The Myth of the 'Jock' | 6/14/1962 | See Source »

...home-a hideout near Carmel, Calif.-she wanders about in burlap blouse and worn blue shorts, tending a menagerie that includes several dogs, cats and lizards. There, she hopes she can "avoid what I think is stupid" by remaining "as close to the earth as possible." Other newcomers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Folk-Girls | 6/1/1962 | See Source »

Dried-Up Source. The Administration's massive attack brought a countereffort by U.S. Steel. But it was too late, and too little. Kennedy had already corralled public opinion; even among businessmen, there was an overwhelming sense that U.S. Steel, in its timing and its tactlessness, had been fantastically stupid in its public relations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: Smiting the Foe | 4/20/1962 | See Source »

...would be rude and stupid to ask meanings of this beautiful structure; the play's words and themes do not from a logical unit, and its point is beyond words. The point is simply the climax of motion and artifice, the Queen's dance...

Author: By Joseph L. Featherstone, | Title: Three Plays | 4/14/1962 | See Source »

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