Word: cluelessness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...veteran English teacher, I need to�speak some ugly truths you will never hear from politicians or school officials: this country is full of clueless, disengaged parents who can't or won't control their kids. Many of my students shamelessly admit they never study, do homework or read books for fun. Meanwhile, I spend a lot of instructional time shutting them up, waking them up and telling them to put away their cell phones. I love my job and my students, but I'm tired of taking all the blame for education's problems. Everyone needs to be held...
Rumsfeld's response was equally clueless. Just hours before the CBS show, says Republican Senator John McCain, Rumsfeld trooped up to S-407, the secure Intelligence Committee room in the Capitol, "and briefed us on how they're armoring the humvees. He never mentioned a word about the story that was to run that evening." Democrats and Republicans alike were furious that the Defense Secretary had kept them in the dark about the looming scandal. "If the answer is, 'He didn't know much and that's why he didn't tell us,'" said Representative John Spratt, a senior Democrat...
...specialized in masterly�portrayals of comically clueless guys--guys he described as being "about a half-step behind life's parade." Brilliant bumbler Tom Poston got his start as one of Steve Allen's "man on the street" interviewees and later shone as a spacey drunk in Mork & Mindy and a hapless handyman in Newhart, roles he said he understood all too well. "In ways I don't like to admit, I'm a goof-up myself," he said...
...some students were in, such as paper-rock-scissors competitions. When asked if she was interested in seeing any Harvard beauties, Gorovelich asked, hesitantly, “Have you ever seen the show?” She added Harvard may have “some girls who are slightly clueless with regards to street smarts” who may be viable contestants. The session calls for men and women aged 21 to 30. “If we found someone 18 or over who’s amazing,” Gorovelich said, “we might let them...
...know about “Controlled Choice” and when asked about other nearby schools in the district, Saba was clueless...