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Word: stupidly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...this is actually senseless and no use to explain to anybody outside Sarajevo. Nothing here can be explained to anybody who isn't here. The questions that reach us from outside, even from our closest ones scattered around the world, seem ever more meaningless, less reasonable, more stupid. We have less and less nerve or ability to answer those questions, to say anything, to explain anything. We have become a ghetto with its own logic, its own laws, its own morality and its own imagination. And of course, its own malice, intolerance and nastiness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Under the Gun in Sarajevo | 2/21/1994 | See Source »

Coming into tonight, speedy junior center Steve Martins should be back from a one-game disciplinary suspension instituted by Tomassoni for taking a stupid penalty in the Vermont tie on January 14. Harvard will need him, too-the Tigers approach the game with a physical game plan, trying to neutralize the Crimson's formidable skating skills...

Author: By Darren Kilfara, | Title: Men's Hockey Travels South; Beanpot Secondary for Now | 2/19/1994 | See Source »

...assumes the awfulness of men, and portrays them in a way that would be judged bigoted and stereotyped if applied to blacks, Jews, Orientals or, for that matter, women. In this genre, the good guys are women and children. The bad guys are adult white men -- almost inevitably brutal, stupid, violent, seething with rage against women...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Men Are They Really That Bad? | 2/14/1994 | See Source »

...Seldom Scene continued to try to sabatoge their collective amazing picking style and mournful harmonies with painfully stupid comments--at one point, when his microphone drooped over in his stand, mandolist John Duffy muttered, "Must have seen Lorena...

Author: By Seth Mnookin, | Title: Red, Hot and Bluegrass | 2/10/1994 | See Source »

...both sides make their best efforts to stay out of the opposite group's line of fire. Conservatives and liberals, as they write in campus journals and speak out at public events, try to make themselves as invulnerable to attack as possible. In short, they try not to look stupid...

Author: By David B. Lat, | Title: The Absence of Rational Minds | 2/10/1994 | See Source »

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