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Word: stupidly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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WASHINGTON, Jan.'13--Secretary of State John Foster Dulles today blasted the Soviet Union's proposals for Germany as brutal, stupid and probably unworkable. Coupling this harsh criticism with an implied promise of flexibility, Dulles added that this country is willing to meet with the Soviet Union, Britain and France to discuss the German problem...

Author: By The ASSOCIATED Press, | Title: Dulles Hits Soviet Berlin Stand, Mentions Compromise Possibility; Rights Commission to See Files | 1/14/1959 | See Source »

...also exempted from the dubious joys of the people's communes. The Communists now soft-pedal their boast that they have wiped out China's patriarchal system. Tweaked on this point by John Foster Dulles, the Central Committee passed a unanimous resolution referring to Dulles as "a stupid fellow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: China's Stumbling Leap | 12/29/1958 | See Source »

...angry disapproval, after he rode up too late to stop the sudden justice. But Ito was inconsolable. His master's ashes had been spilled, so he drew a ceremonial knife across his belly in harakiri. ("So big country. My master ronery now. Rost. And onry to brame stupid Samurai Sakae...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: Westward the Wagons | 12/15/1958 | See Source »

...Stupid Samurai. For all its disparate characters, the show maintains its continuity with the fine performances of its two steady stars. As wagon master, Bond, with his 215-lb. weatherbeaten hulk, is more consistently convincing than he ever was during his movie career. As trail scout, handsome Robert Horton, who never did amount to much on Hollywood's sets, is in his element at last. But the lean-muscled American virtues that Bond and Horton personify never seemed so attractive as they did in last week's Sakae Ito Story, when they were played off against the sensitive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: Westward the Wagons | 12/15/1958 | See Source »

...interview, he went on camera paralyzed to the point of petrification. When the BBC blamed the hot weather, Behan roared to questioning reporters: "I was drunk." Explained his wife of 3½ years, Painter Beatrice Salkeld: "They shut him up in a room before the broadcast, but were stupid enough to leave a bottle of whisky in the room...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OFF BROADWAY: Blanking Success | 12/8/1958 | See Source »

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