Word: stupidity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Angeles has six G.A. chapters. New York four. Most fertile city for prospective G.A. members is Las Vegas. The casino managers are unconcerned about the inroads the organization might make; none has ever been known to refer a steady loser to the local G.A. chapter. "G.A.'s a stupid organization," says one Vegasite. "Imagine being against gambling in this town." But Onetime...
...China, but his suggested solution is not one likely to appeal to Washington: "I think it necessary and even urgent that Washington and Peking should reconcile-the price is Formosa. Red China will never accept a compromise over Formosa, and I wouldn't be stupid enough to propose one. Besides, the Laotian affair has taught me that the role of mediator is most ungrateful: one receives blows from all sides and is suspected by everyone...
...When I get my shelter finished, I'm going to mount a machine gun at the hatch to keep the neighbors out if the bomb falls. I'm deadly serious about this. If the stupid American public will not do what they have to to save themselves, I'm not going to run the risk of not being able to use the shelter I've taken the trouble to provide to save my own family...
...fellow "conspirators," Author Stacton is clearly angry, but not at Booth; shrewdly enough, he treats him with pitying contempt. His target is the injustice that was done not only to Booth's largely duped friends but to the murderer's family as a result of his tragically stupid and criminal...
...known that he was more than willing to return to the house of labor; the only obstacle, said he, was "that dopey, thick-headed Irishman," A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany. To Meany, and even to such friendly A.F.L.-C.I.O. leaders as Walter Reuther ("Reuther is not stupid like Meany"), Hoffa threw down a challenge. Either he would be taken back on his own terms within 18 months or he would form his own federation. Few who heard Hoffa doubted his determination; he had already defied the U.S. Government and forced Jack Kennedy to swallow a campaign...