Word: stupidly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...comforting to know that all the gold bricks, latrine lawyers, sick-call specialists can line up for their $120 a month. As an ex-member of the expendable 106th Division, who was stupid enough to find himself overseas fighting for somebody's turnip patch, and to lose a leg, how do they...
Egypt's ruling class, as stupid, selfish and corrupt as any in the wor,ld, is unconcerned. This summer, as in every summer, the rich fled screeching, scorching Cairo and were relaxing in cool Alexandria or, like their King, on the Riviera. When they return to Cairo later in the fall, their womenfolk diamond-studded and sheathed in Parisian gowns, they will take up life in a small world of their own, which moves between exclusive clubs, theaters and palaces. They own most of Egypt's land, pay ludicrously small taxes...
...gamblers from Genoa stopped paying their rake-off to the government. The government had to borrow money to pay its employees, soon was issuing I.O.U.s instead of wages. Three hundred San Marinese applied for immigration visas to the U.S. Then the Communist government quit. Condemning the Communists' "stupid and egotistic policy," the legislature called for a new election, last week set up a bipartisan regency council to talk terms with Italy. Italy wouldn't budge...
...picture's rumpled sets, James Wong Howe's shadowy photography, the lower-middle-class characterizations, are all well-keyed to a note of squalid realism. The script gives the hoodlum some depth as well as menace; he is stupid, confused, worried sick, and for all his bitterness and bullying, wants eagerly to be liked. The acting is first-rate, not only by Garfield, but by Shelley Winters, deglamorized as the simple, forlorn pickup whose home he invades, by Wallace Ford as her father, grimly swallowing his self-respect, and Selena Royle as the distraught mother...
This morning I am remonstrating in protest against a stupid Harvard tradition of requiring the resignation of an officer of instruction of administration when he has reached the age of 66 years above, or thereabouts--regardless of his (or her) physical and mental condition...