Word: stupidly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...these critical times . . . isn't it absurd that our Senators have time to call each other "blind, stupid...
Said a Kansas City Democratic boss ("Don't quote me by name"): "It's not what the Marines themselves think. The people in general are going to think that any guy who is so stupid as to pop off like that isn't fit to be President." Most Democrats, however, decided that the incident merely demonstrated again that Harry Truman was "just human," and courageous enough to admit his mistakes. No politician was ever hurt by being human, was he? Out in Chicago, Cook County Boss Jacob Arvey said confidently: "Walking before that convention showed...
...traditionalist visitor, Manhattan's wide-windowed Museum of Modern Art has as many jolts as a Coney Island funhouse. Some summer tourists, thankful for the air-conditioning (installed primarily to protect the pictures), take it all in good part. Others are made to feel stupid, cross, or both, when confronted with such enigmatic works as Malevich's White on White-a white-painted canvas adorned with one tilted white square. They are dizzied by the linoleum-like pattern of Mondrian's Broadway Boogie Woogie, dismayed by the necrophilic horror of Albright's Woman, and dumbfounded...
...nobody. But the colonel in his book is. Do you know any non-bitter fighting soldiers or any one who was in Hürtgen [Forest] to the end who can love the authors of that national catastrophe which killed off the flower of our fighting men in a stupid frontal attack...
...interested in distinguishing between the unfortunate and the inefficient. The result is the same." Such ruthlessness, which comes easily to some commanders, can either be sensible or silly. One of LeMay's victims shrewdly summed him up: "He's tough, but he's not stupid-tough...