Word: stupidly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...closed hearings before the Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee, four U.S. airlines protested the deal. Only T.W.A., which stands to gain a new route through Germany, was for the agreement. Angry and scornful, the other lines called the State Department negotiators "stupid" and "inept," argued that they had been maneuvered into handing the Germans the entire Western Hemisphere on a silver platter...
Always cocky, at week's end Yugoslav Communists proclaimed that they found Khrushchev an ersatz Stalin, headlong, a little stupid, uninformed about the out side world. After a special performance of the ballet one night, the crowd cheered Tito and greeted Russia's bigwigs in silence. The Russians had the crumpled look of men who had misjudged and knew...
...fighters. (No spitting on the floor, put cigar butts in cuspidors.) There he developed a surefire system for picking winners. "Their built don't matter so much," Bobby Gleason liked to explain. "What they gotta be if they want to get along in this racket is a little stupid...
...Stupid may be a harsh word for the hard-muscled men who get paid for beating each other's brains out for the television audience, but all last month it seemed a mild word indeed for the men who really cash in on the boxing racket. Managers, seconds, two-bit camp followers and big-shot promoters trooped down to the New York State Athletic Commission to put on a command performance for Julius Helfand, New York's crusading new commission chairman, and showed all the symptoms of psychosomatic lockjaw. For sheer, simple-minded effrontery, there had been nothing...
...commissioner meant business. They would have to mend their ways - at least for a while - or hang up their gloves. But there was no hope for any real change. By the nature of things, professional boxing was still the racket in which it is necessary to be a little stupid - and more than a little forgetful, especially on the witness stand...