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Word: stupidity (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...huge Soviet naval buildup of recent years requires a matching growth in U.S. seapower. These tactics have enraged the Navy's adversaries, primarily civilian aides in the office of Secretary of Defense Harold Brown. Some of them now refer to the Navymen as "bastards" and describe them variously as "stupid," "narrow" and "anachronistic." This name calling has not deterred the Navy from sounding general quarters and manning battle stations as if it were fighting for its life. In a sense it may be, for the eventual resolution of this bitter dispute could determine not only what the U.S. Navy will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Navy Under Attack | 5/8/1978 | See Source »

...some extent, the connection can be made: both plays are about romances, both involve the relationship between a rather stupid nobleman and his bright, if not well-born, valet, and both go through intricate plots before the romance proves successful. There, however, the connection ends...

Author: By Gay Seidman, | Title: ...Two Plays in One | 5/5/1978 | See Source »

Judging by your round table of cold warriors, the military threat the American people should most fear is in the Pentagon, not the Kremlin. What we most need to face is the inflation fueled by $150 billion of stupid racing to more madness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 24, 1978 | 4/24/1978 | See Source »

...Everyone made up his mind not to make stupid shot, and to go out there and play," he said...

Author: By John Donley, | Title: Racquetmen Punish Penn, 6-3, For Sixth Victory in a Row | 4/24/1978 | See Source »

...Stupid. We played a stupid game in the first half, a downcast First said. "They're great shooters from in close. It was very frustrating...

Author: By John Donley and Robert Grady, S | Title: Harvard Sees Red | 4/20/1978 | See Source »

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