Word: stupids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rollback victims unanimously contended that OPA's plans were both stupid and ruinous. Samples: the National Coffee Association pointed out that a 3?-a-lb. reduction in coffee prices would save the consumer a neat 36? in a whole year, while costing taxpayers $30,000,000 a year in subsidies. The meat industry pointed out that meat is so much more desirable than money that the above-ceiling black markets are flourishing...
...People are always asking me what I do in nightclubs. 'Don't be stupid,' I reply, 'I get stinko!'. . . This morning ... I did something more. I sat in a seat in the Champagne Room at El Morocco which was still warm from having held the posterior of the ex-King of England. . . . Although the seat had rubbed and been rubbed by royalty, in a quite literal sense, I didn't notice when I rubbed it, and it rubbed me, that it felt different than any other seat. However, it may be that...
...most violent yellow journal, the editors laid on their most desperate adjectives, and none was stronger than the people's feeling. Some people, notably Congressman Ham Fish, even demanded that the U.S. take its turn at cold-blooded killing by reprisals against Japanese prisoners. (Such proposals were as stupid as they were contemptible: the U.S. has captured few Japanese; the Jap has some 17,000 U.S. troops. 11,000 Philippine Scouts, and about 8,200 U.S. civilians...
...going home when the Tunisian campaign is finished. Why, I don't know, when some boys in the Eighth Army have been in Africa for years compared to their months. It seems to me that somebody back home must be feeding these boys an awful lot of stupid propaganda. It's a pity too, because guys like this who have been sluggin' away at a hill like Old Baldy for three weeks don't deserve to get wrong ideas...
...Ills. . . . Fencing, says Nadi, should be "a cardinal part" of everybody's education. He considers boxing, by contrast, a vulgar, stupid sport. He prescribes fencing for developing character, nervous stamina and intelligence, for reducing, for learning to walk properly, for "strengthening and toning the breast muscles" (quips Nadi: "Show me the girl not interested in these details...