Word: dumb
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...THANKS BUT NO THANKS When readers don't like what they see on the cover, they return it--sometimes whole, very often in shreds. And 76 readers did just that when they spotted the aforementioned Men of the Year duo, which some called "Dumb and Dumber." An inventive 42 sent back what they thought was the undeserving half...
...better git dare rat away." "Dare I is," Buckwheat proclaimed, leaping up from the table and inviting me to follow. "It's stupid," he explained. "The Society for Turning Up Phony Issues and Diversions, a secret outfit dedicated to making us black folks look like fools by stirring up dumb racial controversies. I'm coming out of retirement to fight them...
...staff believes that Massachusetts's teacher testing program is suspect because of "the secrecy surrounding its methodology." That, and the fact that state officials have had the nerve to call dumb teachers "dumb." Fittingly, the staff seems to think that the solution to this is a kindly bureaucrat in shining armor who should come from the federal government, known, of course, for its humanness, its sunshine and its clarity...
...Gazette were not about a President's disgrace; they were about the revered principal of a local grade school who had just resigned after being arrested on suspicion of marijuana possession. A public figure who everyone thought was doing a wonderful job was accused of doing something petty and dumb--and in so doing gave the town a chance to wonder about its standards and its sense of mercy...
...wonderful you almost wanted to move to the Minnesota tundra and forget questions about whether Jesse can govern or whether tripartisan politics will be a fetid swamp. You also wanted to forget that Jesse kept speaking in bromides and stuck to a schedule of at least one head-smackingly dumb remark daily, reminding everyone that hoo-yah! is awfully close to yahoo...