Word: stupidly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...College, where he ran upstairs two at a time, worked 18 hours a day, his job and the job of the Staff was to direct the work of whipping the Army into fighting shape, to plan field exercises, to keep eyes peeled for new training methods, stupid officers, backward outfits. By October, Artilleryman McNair, recent head of the Army's Command and General Staff School, had his staff clicking, had the field forces of the U.S. molded into four field armies, nine tactical corps, Armored Force, Coast Artillery districts...
...defeat the Axis Powers by keeping control of the seas. If this is true, why has the President formed a huge American Army? Actually, the road down which he beckons us leads to war in Europe, in Asia and in Africa, war fought by American men and materials, a stupid aggressive suicidal war of conquest. All through the developing crisis, this is the very eventuality that a great majority of Americans have feared. Even today, hardly a man dares support it frankly and openly...
...without considering the effect of its course on other countries. All of them are already agreed that the U. S. must accept its responsibility in world affairs, not scuttle out of them as it did after Versailles. Says Chairman Dulles: "America must realize that isolation is not only stupid, selfish and impossible but positively immoral...
...plan was advantageous in the least to the British, they are neither as stupid or preoccupied as the Hooverites claim, as not to immediately adopt the plan to approve their own position...
...radio, they are the invention and ideas of those who have written them. The authorship belongs to them, not to me. I stand firmly for the ideas I expressed, but I do not have a slightest claim of authorship for the ideas which are, in my opinion, silly, stupid, obscene, and moronish. P. A. Sorokin...