Word: stupids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...turned out with the sun, had been taught in field and classroom until the sun was down, had often sat up until 11 o'clock at night poring over the texts on which they were examined. It was a tough course. The haphazard, the uninterested and the stupid (about 10%) fell by the wayside...
...have with the caustic wit of your public utterance stripped the coverings from the stupid pretensions and the cunning treason of both domestic and foreign enemies of the people...
...like a Harvarder, far as I can see, all you got to do is act dumb. Stupid, like...
What got under skins was the little guests' account of life in Canada. They were told "stupid, soothing things" while going through Customs, then given "a childish lunch of sloppy things like jelly and rice pudding." Toronto's big Union Station with its "slippery marble floor" looked at first to them like a church, later, they decided, more like a lavatory...
Perhaps a stupid noncom or officer had got John started on his military career on the wrong foot. At any rate, in the transition from civilian to military life, John had gone wrong, changed from a quiet, useful citizen to a maladjusted anti-social character...