Word: stupidly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...guess I was so concerned about my liver that I didn't have time to worry about anything else. Also, I turned 40 a few months ago. and when you hit that stage you feel that maybe now people won't think of you as a stupid backward child that you wind up and send out on a stage to sing...
Ruth K. Porritt, Radcliffe librarian, said, "We aren't so stupid that we didn't know girls were checking out reserve books for their boy friends." She explained that the entire procedure was "legalized" so the library knows where the books are at all times. In the past, boys have failed to return reserve books borrowed by 'Cliffie friends on time, causing acute discomfort for their 'Cliffie friends...
...turns out, are a rogues' gallery of stupid, brutal and arrogant attendants. In self-defense the hero tries to decide who he is and what made him that way. A succession of sometimes awkward flashbacks shows a dismal flat in a dismal slum, a father dying of some unspeakable capitalist contagion, a mother playing around with her "fancy man," a burglary of no more importance than a raid on the cookie jar, a relentless agent of the law who brings the hero to what the picture plainly does not think is justice. In the end, given the chance...
...Triomphe, France's richest horse race, run over Longchamps' egg-shaped 1½-mi. grass course. Finishing a dismal tenth was the U.S. Cinderella horse Carry Back, given what Owner Jack Price and other observers (including ex-Jockey Eddie Arcaro) called a "stupid" ride by Australia's Scobie Breasley. "Two hours before post time, Breasley was still in the dining room, having a hearty lunch and sipping champagne," said Price angrily. "At the eighth pole-where ,Carry Back usually makes his best run-it looked like Breasley's efforts at the luncheon table were beginning...
...cannot appear before the world as an association of rich and selfish countries. If we were to fall into this error, we would never be able to find our place in the world. We would be detested and hated, but let me tell you that we would also be stupid. Our countries must export ... If we ruin our clients, we ruin ourselves...