Word: stupids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...family, asked Americans to reelect Mr. Roosevelt. Last week the Church of England Newspaper (which, despite its name, speaks only for a Low Church faction) plunked for Term IV: "To pretend that the [U.S.] election this year is the concern only of the American people is just stupid. . . . [It] is fraught with incalculable significance for all mankind...
...operations officer, Captain Philip Rognile, took over the radio. "Frogs, frogs. I say frogs. All right, stupid, I mean tanks," he yelled at someone at the other end. A leather-faced farmer from Tennessee, Sergeant Robert Riggina, chimed in dryly, "Them tanks is all right. F Company woulda been kilt or captured yesterday if them tanks hadn't come...
...German's German or his French. It seemed silly to stand there while they held up the whole queue, so I helped the German to buy his ticket. While we were putting our tickets and money into our billfolds, the German turned to me and said: "Rather stupid to be mechanical about things when one is in a neutral country, nicht wahr? I just came from Berlin, but I am a Hamburger." As he said the last word, his mouth twitched convulsively...
...Thomas Beecham suggested to modern composers that they become "more socially stupid" and "intellectually puerile." Lecturing in Manhattan, he feared that the "creative current ... in music is running dry. . . . Let's please pray that our creative artists . . . be outrageous, impractical, impossible . . . but . . . recover their pride in their craft...
...child, Dr. Lord discovered, were school failures. Only five had normal I.Q.s, and four of the five were so erratic that they could not learn easily. Most of the other ''children were so stupid (I.Q. 69 to 96) and ill-behaved that they had to repeat classes, attend special classes or even give up school entirely. One little girl bit people just to see them bleed, and was expelled from school for dancing on the desks and the piano...