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Word: stupidly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...intellects of a growing liberal contingent. Thus, we have Hokanson frantically calling the press in order to nullify the Constitutional rights of nearly 500 students to freely and publicly express themselves on an abominable war in Vietnam. One cannot help but think that lurking beneath his impolitic and stupid actions was a deep and abiding belief that Business School students-and most especially Harvard Business School students-just aren't supposed to get involved with controversial issues. What all of us witnessed last week was simply the great lengths to which the conservative faction of the SA will...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Mail B-SCHOOL "CONSERVATISM" | 11/3/1969 | See Source »

...have to keep the upper hand. Most of the people you sell to are scatterbrained and stupid...

Author: By David N. Hollander, | Title: The Almost Free Encyclopedia | 10/28/1969 | See Source »

...they're not so stupid. Almost everybody manages to prevent the insistent Colliermen from getting in his door, despite a sales talk designed to make it as difficult as possible for a family to turn down the company's "offer." A person who started listening, liked what he saw, and remained silent when told the cost of the books was only "small change" gradually became committed to buying...

Author: By David N. Hollander, | Title: The Almost Free Encyclopedia | 10/28/1969 | See Source »

...supporting the Provisional Revolutionary Government in South Vietnam, the American anti-war movement will be inviting charges that it is betraying American soldiers in the field. The movement has survived theses attacks in the past, and it will survive them again. The people of this country are not stupid, and they can see easily enough who is responsible for the fact that Americans are being shot at and killed in Vietnam. Government apologists have long tried to argue that the blame for the American deaths should be placed not on the men who sent Americans to die in Vietnam...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: End the War: Support the NLF | 10/15/1969 | See Source »

...suntan instead of slapdash makeup jobs; no lectern to hide behind. Ailes kept the set simple, the colors manly. Once Chicago set designers tried to use oh-so-chic turquoise curtains as a back drop. "Those stupid bastards," railed Ailes. "Nixon wouldn't have looked right unless he was carrying a pocketbook...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Marketing: Programming a President | 10/10/1969 | See Source »

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