Word: deke
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...wish I could offer George W. Bush some advice about how to fend off efforts to portray him as a dimwit, but even Dan Quayle rejected the only slogan I came up with when he had a similar problem: "Definitely Not the Dumbest Guy in the Deke House." Political pundits are warning us that the public is in danger of seeing all the presidential candidates as caricatures--McCain as a hothead, for instance, and Gore as a manlike object and Forbes as a terminal dork. Just who might be responsible for leaving the voters with these impressions...
...Chait is right, "Definitely Not the Dumbest Guy in the Deke House" would be precisely the sort of slogan Bush's campaign should avoid. When reporters ask him questions designed to discover whether he really has read James Chace's biography of Dean Acheson, he shouldn't answer with some foreign-policy boilerplate from his stump speech. He should say, "Couldn't finish it. Too many long words...
Corralling the puck behind the net to Snee's left, he faked skating all the way around the goal and pulled up short for a quick wraparound. Snee fell down on the deke and the puck hit the back of the net for a 3-0 lead...
Then one Christmas, in the process of trying to round up a Christmas tree for the Deke house, Bush and some fraternity brothers cast their eyes on a wreath hanging in front of a local store. The Deke house could use just such a wreath, they decided...
...Deke was the jock house all right, but this was no Mississippi State," says Deke member J.P. Goldsmith, who was a year behind Bush at Yale. "Every body could read and write, everybody could wear a neck-tie and everybody went to class...