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Word: stupidity (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Frustation, anxiety, insecurity and impotence. Should I go home? Perhaps I don't really belong here anyway. Since I got here all I've been doing is trying to find guts. As you've probably noticed, I'm stupid and boring. Harvard doesn't do much for a tottering...

Author: By Jim Barlow, | Title: Three Weeks Into Harvard Three Freshmen, Three Views | 10/7/1975 | See Source »

Naturally, I've been to lots of parties where I've met all the other 1639 stupid and boring freshmen. Not only that, but I hate milk and cookies. And I get sick on beer. (This has somewhat constrained my social life here...

Author: By Jim Barlow, | Title: Three Weeks Into Harvard Three Freshmen, Three Views | 10/7/1975 | See Source »

...considered strolling to Fisherman's Wharf. Instead, he wandered toward Union Square, where he was surprised at the number of demonstrators protesting such conditions as high oil prices, poor schools and U.S. involvement in the Middle East. He asked why they were there. "What's the matter with you, stupid?" one replied. "Don't you read the papers? Ford's here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE SHOOTING: FORD'S SECOND CLOSE CALL | 10/6/1975 | See Source »

...radicals she had come to admire, and she had hoped to break out of this "isolation" and regain her radical friends. On the shooting itself, "I had set a course for myself that I hoped I would not be permitted to do. But the security was so stupid. It was like an invitation." Yet Moore added, "I'm glad he didn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE SHOOTING: FORD'S SECOND CLOSE CALL | 10/6/1975 | See Source »

...over a 60-year period. Most frequently, Reith's targets were people who stood between him and the pinnacles of power that he thought were his natural habitat. His first run-ins were with the BBC board of governors. He dismissed Lord Clarendon, the first chairman, as "a stupid ass" and Board Member Mrs. Ethel Snowden as "a truly terrible creature...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRITAIN: Lord Wrath | 10/6/1975 | See Source »

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