Word: stupidity
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...chastised in front of 39,000 fans by their new owner, Ray Kroc, 71, chairman of America's fastest-food empire. Perhaps hoping to instill in the team McDonald's will-to-win spirit, Kroc announced over the public address system: "I've never seen such stupid ball playing in my life." Although Kroc later apologized, the Padres considered complaining to Baseball Commissioner Bowie Kuhn, then thought better of it. Still, it may be a long season...
...children, that is. The school's white principal and both black and white teachers treated white children and their parents with respect and attention. But the lower-income black children, whose speech, dress and attitudes often alienated their middle-class teachers, were consistently humiliated, labeled "slow" or "stupid" and physically abused...
...remark. "Your majesty is like a stream of bat piss," James MacNeill Whistler comments, and Wilde is forced to explain: "I simply meant, your majesty, that when all is dark, you shine out like a shaft of gold." And the Monty Python stand-by of snappy answers to stupid questions is still occasionally successful. A customer in a cheese store asks without success for every variety of cheese you or your cow ever heard of, until he bursts out: "Do you really have any cheese at all?" "No," the proprietor answers with a smile, "I was deliberately trying to waste...
...Soldiers Field. At least, it seems to be comfortable, since it is always there. For some institutions, this would be a sign to plant cedars along the fences, or at least to put up windscreens. But Harvard, perhaps hoping to economize or to test the fortitude of those stupid enough to try to play tennis, has forgone any kind of wind protection...
...Anyway," he continued, that's these kids; "They don't know shit, they don't have anybody to think about, they're just loud and stupid...