Word: stupidly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...imagine a hypothetical professor," he said, "who corresponds to a number of different university staffs who might join a great many organizations and make statements, which from my point of view are incredibly stupid and not likely to improve the cause of either peace or the security of the United States...
...reject the theory that housewives are stupid because they listen to daytime shows," says Garry Moore. He is defending not only housewives but himself, for his Garry Moore Show (weekdays, 1:30 p.m., CBS-TV) comes smack in the middle of the day. It is also, he insists, "non-typical." Unlike such weepy radio competitors as Young Dr. Malone and The Guiding Light, Moore tries to run his program on the lines of a comic strip: "No one show of mine fractures you all by itself. But, in continuity, they go over&151;just like Li'l Abner...
...would require Dr. Kinsey approximately 13½ years to complete the job on the basis of a 12-hour day. This allows no days off, no time for lunch, and no time to salve the stings (assuming gall wasps sting). Furthermore, if 3,500,000 gall wasps are so stupid as to fall into the hands of a man like Dr. Kinsey-well, they just don't deserve to have any secrets left...
...ever thought otherwise? Who has ever considered Claus stupid or sinister? Or a criminal? No unspoiled infant, surely. But men of great power and responsibility, judges and prelates, have pulled this once-proud figure to depths of shame and obloquy...
...Stupid he is then, but obviously a kindly, well-meaning old bumbler, spreading joy as best he knows how. Yet only last week, during a jurisdictional dispute between two labor unions in Toledo, Ohio, Claus was incarcerated in jail on the basis of his "previous criminal record" (The Toledo Blade, December 9). This would appear to be damning, but can we not say charitably in this season of love that the previous record of fault was a wild oat carelessly sown and repented? After all, how many beneficent builders of the nation's libraries, hospitals, and universities have buried their...