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Word: dumb (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...barrel in this case is the U.S. Air Force, and Will Stockdale (Andy Griffith) is a pippin. The hillbilly is so dumb he thinks R.O.T.C. is a disease; but he like to bust, he's that crazy about "thuh Ayuh Fowerce." After his first visit to the mess hall, he happily hollers, "Nevah had sech a fill a beans in mah whole lahf...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jun. 2, 1958 | 6/2/1958 | See Source »

...lose, the Tennessee Cannonball was good for a laugh, liked to tell stories on himself. Once, in a game with Princeton, the referee penalized Yale ten yards because Hickman was coaching from the sidelines. "I ran after him; the coach recounted, "and shouted. 'Why, you dumb so-and-so, you don't even know that the penalty for [that] is 15 yards!' The referee looked at me scornfully and said, 'For the kind of coaching you're doing, it's only ten.' " Born in Johnson City, Tenn., Herman Hickman was an All-America...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, may 5, 1958 | 5/5/1958 | See Source »

...Folks are dumb where I come from...

Author: By Richard N. Levy, | Title: Social Schism: Brown Spring Weekend | 5/2/1958 | See Source »

...nasty world of General Motors and General Eisenhower has, in short, proved so confusing and so dumb, so pre-occupied with false values and false gods, that the sensitive soul can only recoil in to himself, where, in a snug world--"the inner world of the human psyche," The Editor calls it--a fellow can find himself and discover the "most meaningful truth." But even in this hallowed precinct, citizen-youth finds no peace, for in withdrawal, today's young people "are endangering society's future" because they are failing to cope with the issues of the cold war. Eventually...

Author: By Gavin Scotts, | Title: The Editor | 4/29/1958 | See Source »

...confused with any of the many other Beautiful but movies, e.g., Beautiful but Broke, Beautiful but Dumb, Beautiful, but Dummies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Feb. 17, 1958 | 2/17/1958 | See Source »

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