Word: stupids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Italian threw up his hands. "Ahh, you do notta know by this time what it is thatta you are to do. Stupid, stupid, stupid. You cannot go on the stage or you would be the ruin of the opera!" And he pushed him back into the wings. Wade never saw the footlights...
Winston Churchill last week finally faced up to what the British had begun to call the "Winston Crisis." He gave his fast-multiplying number of critics some of the action they had been asking for. To those who said that his Cabinet was too stupid or too stiffly Tory, or both, he responded with a general Cabinet reshuffle in which some of the stiffest Tories went out of the window and Britain's most eminent Socialist, Sir Stafford Cripps, came boldly in the front door...
...grim mental note to vote against his Congressman. For many a U.S. citizen it was all too easy to take out his general dissatisfaction on the 77th Congress. To many a citizen, Congress seemed a dreary collection of porcine clowns, of pompous pantaloons, always wrong or greedy or just stupid. Many a citizen remembered the marrow-chilling House draft-extension vote last August of 203-to-202, when one vote saved the nation's Army. Many a citizen remembered that Congress had refused to fortify Guam...
...themselves into the economic life of the community," he forgets that the chief reason most Germans couldn't find work and finally took to the swastika is that the rest of the world was so blinded by nationalism as to turn central Europe into an impossible mess, and so stupid as to bring their own countries to the verge of revolt in the Great Depression...
What made this all the more stupid on the part of the Allies was the fact that there was a good explanation. Naming Adolf Hitler as Enemy No. 1 did not necessarily mean giving offensives against him military priority. Hitler's, main enemies have always been Britain and Russia, but he gave priorities to Poland, Norway, the Lowlands, France, the Balkans...