Word: stupids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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London itself of course shows plenty of signs of the blitzes, though a stupid enough tourist can easily drive along Regent Street and gurgle that "you'd never think there'd been a bomb dropped in London!" Many buildings, still standing and apparently unharmed, are completely burned out inside. Every few blocks at least there is an empty lot, looking no more romantic than an empty lot in Dedham, but bombed, not wrecked by Curley & Sons, Contr. Most shocking are the "wide open spaces"--areas in the East End, thousands of yards square, blitzed as smooth as an infield...
...seems to me incredibly crazy to waste billions of dollars and millions of man-years on anything so stupid and negative as the proposed U.M.T. program...
...three Senate committees began a combined probe into the fantastic finance of invasion currency, they were shocked to discover how the plans had miscarried. In the words of New Hampshire's Senator Styles Bridges, Morgenthau and Army and Cabinet co-planners had been so "naive, gullible or stupid" that the U.S. had been stuck for the whopping sum of $250 million in invasion marks...
Uncompromising Verdict. It took a second reading, and some reflection, to discourage optimists. Said one foreign diplomat, after lunch: "I am stupid. I have done it again & again. I thought this morning for a while that the Russians really meant business." Square, old-fashioned Warren Austin, senior U.S. delegate who likes to look for the bright side, at first thought Gromyko's words meant "a very promising advance." But It turned out that he had misunderstood at least one ambiguous passage...
...girl jumped out, took one look at her smashed grill and headlights, and shrieked at the round little driver of the Buick. He was a stupid lout, cried she, and he probably sold his wife's virtue. His answer was two brief words: both meant that she was in his opinion a woman of the streets. The girl got her car into gear, backed it out, drove ahead of the Buick and then went into reverse. There was a horrible crunch, but she had aimed badly. Now her Oldsmobile had a big hole in the trunk; the Buick...