Word: stupidly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Withering Knighthood. In Buffalo, Judge Michael Zimmer fined Store Manager Eugene Cyr $50 for slapping a woman with "too much force," although he agreed there was "no doubt some provocation" when the woman called him a "stupid jerk...
...worth trying to reduce Britain's horrible casualty figure," Prince Philip tried to stop his elegant green Lagonda convertible when a Morris slowed for a turn, failed to brake fast enough, clonked into the tiny car. The Morris pilot hopped out in a huff, "thinking 'Some stupid clod's hit me,' " melted immediately when Philip cheerfully took the blame. Damage to Queen, Prince and commoner: none. To Philip's prestige as president of the auto association: sufficient dents that a London columnist suggested it would be just as well if he stopped chauffeuring the Queen...
...Supreme Court been the center of such general commotion in newspapers (see PRESS) and in the bar. The New York Times trotted out the kind of headlines usually reserved for war or disaster. Cried a Chicago lawyer: "This court is unanalytical; it's vicious, it's stupid, it's illiterate, it's subjective." Retorted a California judge: "The decisions are sound and timely. The trials of Communists here are comparable only to the trial of Cardinal Mindszenty in Hungary. Neither should have taken place...
...sense the Machiavellianism where it belongs--inside Iago's mind--even when he is just lurking silently on the sidelines. It would be easier to externalize his deviltry entirely, but it would be wrong. To the personages of the drama, Iago must seem honest; otherwise Othello becomes a stupid idiot (which he is not), to say nothing of Iago's own wife, Emilia, who only at the very end learns the true nature of her spouse. Drake is right to look like the innocent flower but be the serpent under...
...Reader Steinbeck's needle seems to be stuck. Wrote he to TIME, Dec. 26, 1955: "TIME'S Nov. 28 review of Ten North Frederick by John O'Hara is stupid...