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Word: stupidity (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...displeasure at Zeus's chasing a girl, Swoedipus. The girl is banished to a desert island, cleverly named Isle of Lucy, from which she is rescued by Androgen, her human lover, after he has consulted various oracles, performed various labors, and, appropriately, suffered. With domineering females made to look stupid, with retarded juvenile and cardboard characters floating around and with the chorus line, the show has what most Pudding audiences like...

Author: By Dwight Cramer, | Title: I'd Rather French-Kiss the Blob | 3/2/1974 | See Source »

...authority with a renewed mandate from the electorate. Given that if the present government wins, it will settle with the miners and give them what they want--a fact which nobody, even in Conservative circles denies--then the issue of "Who Governs Britain" will be shown to be stupid. All that one can say is that the Conservatives would prefer to settle with the miners at the beginning of a five-year period of office than near the end of their present term. Prime Minister Edward Heath has already lost one clash with the miners, two years...

Author: By Kevin Carey, | Title: The British Struggle | 2/26/1974 | See Source »

...newspaper in the state has been quite as strong in supporting Israel as has been the Manchester Union Leader. This support dates back to 1956 when "Dopey Dwight" Eisenhower was stupid enough to play the Russians' game and bring about the return of the combined Israeli-French-English Expeditionary Force against Nasser. Had things been different, we would not today have Russia's influence in the Middle East and probably not had the subsequent tragic wars...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UNPLEASANT SURPRISES | 2/22/1974 | See Source »

...they let me sit there for three more hours and I still can't do it. So they tell me to come back in a week and so I come back and sit in this empty classroom with the doors locked for six straight hours staring at that stupid question trying to figure out if maybe I'd gone crazy, zoned out. So they flunk me, but by that time I just couldn't see any point...

Author: By Emily Fisher, | Title: Lady Star Dust | 2/20/1974 | See Source »

...three weeks with a story about how he beat her up and raped her and left her for dead in a motel in the middle of Salt Lake City. After that she said she hated freaks--said they were mean bastards who'd steal you blind if you were stupid and kill you if you gave em' trouble...

Author: By Emily Fisher, | Title: Lady Star Dust | 2/20/1974 | See Source »

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