Word: dumb
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Pravda, thereafter was Stalin's ever-loyal lieutenant until his death. Elected a Polit buro alternate in 1921, aged 31, the youngest ever. Premier 1930 to 1941 Minister 1939 to 1949. Uninspired, but crafty and stubborn negotiator. Irritated underlings call him Iron Rump, Lenin called him "an incurable dumb bell" and "the best file clerk in Russia." Behind every plodding step however, lies a record of a difficult task efficiently performed. Is the last of the Old Bolsheviks, the revolutionmakers, left in the innermost circle. Married to a Jewess (who has U.S. relatives); one daughter. Is fussy, pedantic loves...
...score was 68 to 68 with a minute left when Yale went into a slow, deliberate freeze. Then the ball went to Plecas. A substitute guard who had tied the game up already and given the Elis their only load, Places just stood there with the ball, with a dumb expression, on his face. Finally, with loss than three seconds left, and when Plecas still had both the ball and the dumb expression, Schnaitter awakened him, and Plecas a cored...
Author Beman tells the success story of an intelligent young pup in the world of "dumb people"-how he became a hero by saving the baby ("new small people") from death in a bedroom fire, how he amazed "Grandmother People" by fetching her slippers every evening, and how he even sneaked into church one day and joined in a hymn...
Actress Judy Holliday won Hollywood's top honor last year for her portrayal of the dumb blonde in Born Yesterday. In answer to a subpoena, Judy made an important personal appearance last March before the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee. Subject of the inquiry: her connection, for the past decade or so, with Communist-front organizations. In making the minutes public last week, the committee drew no conclusions, made no recommendations; but the session sounded as if Oscar-winning Actress Holliday was still skillfully playing the dumb blonde-this time for higher stakes. Excerpts...
...twelve years), said the institute's Research Director James Stannard Baker, make the best automobile drivers. If the moron's eyesight is a little below par, all the better-keeps his mind on the job. "The operation of a motor car," Baker explained, "is too dumb a job to command the attention of those who are particularly bright." And people with sharp eyes are apt to be distracted by shop windows or pretty faces...