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Word: dumb (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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Every parent knows that raising children requires bicycle helmets, Beanie Babies, notebook paper, prayers, skill, the grace of God and plain dumb luck. But what many of us don't ever come to grips with is this: we must take responsibility for the world our children inhabit. We make the world for them. We give it to them. And if we fail them, they will break our hearts 10 different ways...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Littleton Massacre: Where Were the Parents? | 5/3/1999 | See Source »

...does not run to her rescue, snarling at the attackers and tenderly holding her close. Instead, he screams childishly at everyone, and falls onto the floor alongside Sally, crying bitterly for himself beside the nearly clubbed-to-death girl. If his Tommy is blind, deaf or mute (or dumb, as Townshend's original words state), he certainly hides it well...

Author: By Sarah A. Rodriguez, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Who? Rock 'N Roll Dreams Come True in Tommy | 4/23/1999 | See Source »

Taxes are too high. I'm high! Just kidding of course. You think I'm dumb? Okay, bad question...

Author: By Baratunde R. Thurston, | Title: The Problem with America is Dan Quayle | 4/20/1999 | See Source »

...Sandra, brandishing all the cash she supposedly has, hopes to fast-talk an old lady into a cheap sale...and gets directed to an ATM down the street. We break through to this bit character, one of those extras who are usually just like us, or at least as dumb, and what do we get...but more of the same...

Author: By Nicolas R. Rapold, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Back to Black | 4/16/1999 | See Source »

...what counts as a confession. Women can be Janet Reno or Monica Lewinsky (for argument s sake, we ll say she s pretty). Everyone understands the concept of not pretty equals intelligent equals better than men, while pretty equals dumb equals slave to men. We categorize women into butch or airhead, prude or slut, dim-wit or smartadivisions with little gradation in between. Men, on the other hand, have the liberty of wearing pretty much anything and still having their intelligence and ability determined byasurprise!atheir intelligence and ability. The unfair smart-or-dumb distinction for women looks like...

Author: By Yo-el Ju, | Title: Confessions | 4/8/1999 | See Source »

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