Word: dumb
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...moment later found himself driving along the selfsame street as the Queen and not 30 yards behind. The jovial crowd spotted his new cart and, after the Queen had passed, broke into renewed cheers for the dustman. Bewildered Sidney waved his hand uncertainly and smiled a smile of dumb thanks. Behind him in the cart, three helpers smiled and waved like royalty. The crowd went home, and Sidney Cooper had a fine tale to tell the wife and eight kids at home...
...committee did not argue the moral or sociological aspects of the case. It based its arguments on efficiency. There were bright Negroes and there were dumb ones, just like white men. To refuse a job to an intelligent or skilled Negro was simply a waste of manpower. Concentration of unskilled Negroes in segregated units just multiplied their inefficiency...
While a military band played brassy jazz, Provost Buck and visiting official-dom inspected the drawn-up forces and a Marine complained to bystanders that "the dumb Army is too far over. They're crowding the Navy battalion...
...each case the police solved the crime, but, Nash pointed out: "These teen-agers (your kids) are constantly being shown that if they aren't as stupid as that very, very dumb and ignorant criminal portrayed on the radio (who got the 75 Gs, but got caught in a two-way radio police trap), that he, the teenager, could easily get away with it ... Lights flash on; bells ring; he visualizes $75,000 stacks of greenbacks stashed in his bureau drawer. He says to himself, 'It's about time somebody with a little intelligence went after...
...animal, sex undisclosed, was using the obsolete dumb waiter as its headquarters, and was able to travel secretly to the various floors of the building at will, by use of the machine...