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Word: dumb (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Political Commitment. Of the irregulars' effect on the people of Phu Vinh, Hayden says: "Before Tet, they were fat, dumb and happy. After Tet, we looked around and saw that the people were scared to death. Now they aren't complacent, but they are confident. They think the V.C. can't get in here again. They are our great hope for the future down here." On the spread of such commitment may well rest the success of the South Vietnamese government in the trying times of war-or truce-that lie ahead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The War: Phu Vinh's Irregulars | 11/8/1968 | See Source »

...last, the couple become part of a Castroish band of guerrillas reconnoitering the French woods. Here, the on-camera death agonies of dumb animals provide a new twinge of horror. In the final scene, the wife is enthusiastically munching away on a hearty meal. "They mixed the pig with what was left of the English tourists," explains the leader of the guerrillas. "The ones from the Rolls?" she asks casually, with her mouth full. Another example of Go-dardian overkill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Movies: Society as a Slaughterhouse | 11/1/1968 | See Source »

Will that bastard-saint, the real Al Vellucci, please stand up, wave the life wand and let the dumb speak...

Author: By George Hall, | Title: Al Vellucci: The Politics of Disguise | 10/11/1968 | See Source »

...statistics, to the numbers of blacks turned down by the military, and to the abysmal inability of black Southerners to get jobs, and use these as sociological proof of the cherished racist theories. "Them niggers will never be any good," they cheerily tell squirming visitors. "They's just so dumb that all they like to do is sit around an shoot pool. Damn federal government comes down here tellin' us the niggers are as good as us. All they gotta do is look at 'em to see they're no good...

Author: By James M. Fallows, | Title: High School Graduates Who Can't READ?! | 9/28/1968 | See Source »

...their secret moments, almost all of the Southerners seem to realize that the black schools have a fundamental relation with the continued black inferiority in the South. The rednecks who will not admit that Negroes are "just too dumb" because they've been at shoddy schools seem to sense that if the Negroes invade the white schools, a change will be imminent. And that is why school desegregation has become the last stand of the old white order...

Author: By James M. Fallows, | Title: High School Graduates Who Can't READ?! | 9/28/1968 | See Source »

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