Word: stupidly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Britons. Said London's Laborite Daily Herald: "If this is the only spiritual guidance the Primate can offer anxious millions on this supreme question, he had better hold his peace or lay down his office. Clearly the Archbishop has lost faith in mankind." Many churchmen agreed. "Singularly futile, stupid and un-Christian," snapped Dr. John S. Thomson, moderator of the United Church of Canada. "There is no justification for anyone, even the Archbishop of Canterbury, to put himself in the place of God," said Canon L. J. Collins of St. Paul's Cathedral, and added that he would...
...Silly, stupid, ridiculous!" sputtered a Pentagon official, commenting on last week's flap between Defense Secretary Neil H. McElroy and Georgia's Senator Richard B. Russell. Scenario...
...stupid young man (Nehemiah Persoff) from the city, but he was rich. He offered Suzanne a new phonograph if she would let him watch her take a shower, and a diamond if she would spend a weekend with him in the city. "I guarantee I won't touch you," he assured her, gasping with excitement. Suzanne contemptuously accepted his diamond but declined payment, and Joseph stirred worms into his coffee. But Ma led the suitor on, in hopes he would lend her money. When he didn't, Joseph ran him off the place with a shotgun, and then...
...salesmen today cry: "Sell harder!" Said Brower: "That's nonsense, if by 'hard sell' you mean nothing more than high pressure. There is really no such thing as 'hard sell' and 'soft sell.' There is only 'smart sell' and 'stupid sell...
...takes with him on business trips. A true gentleman. Mason has no stomach for rough stuff, but even he is not above breaking the law (e.g., unlawful entry) in a client's interest. Lawyer Mason draws the line at committing felonies, counts on the D.A.'s being stupid enough to miss catching him in misdemeanors...