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Word: dumb (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...games. And there's also Pat, one of few men to stuff the All Star ballot boxes with votes for Paul Sorrento (his nephew). A good friend of the sports department, Pat has supervised this place for decades and I'll sure miss being called a "dumb s%&t" come September...

Author: By David S. Griffel, | Title: Final Notes | 6/6/1996 | See Source »

...like a bunch of first-year graduate students are coming in having bought into a bunch of lies," says the graduate student in the social sciences. "They're not that dumb. The real question is what's happening to the attraction of talent...

Author: By Malka A. Older, | Title: Graduate Students Face Unfavorable Job Prospects | 6/6/1996 | See Source »

...crime, by cutting federal income taxes for District residents. This idea makes sense because people here have no real representation in Congress and pay the highest combined local and federal taxes in the U.S. But you can almost hear the lawmakers chortling at the very idea that people dumb enough to re-elect Barry deserve a tax break...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dividing Line: MARION BARRY: CAPITAL OFFENSE | 5/27/1996 | See Source »

...actually feel something for that poor, dumb, terrified thing. Imagine yourself quaking in her hooves: one minute you're chewing your cud, the next you're a UFO. But aside from one poor guy in the prologue, who disappears headfirst into a big storm's "suck zone," Old Bossy is the only living creature we see suffering from nature's wrath in this film. The rest of the time the movie implies that tornadoes practice selective targeting, attacking only trucks with no visible drivers or farms where everyone has safely gained the storm cellar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOX-OFFICE BLOWHARD | 5/20/1996 | See Source »

Finally, on to the master of the infuriatingly dumb editorial, Mr. David W. Brown. I tried to call Mr. Brown to discuss his "Mocking the Right" personally, but, alas, his phone number has been disconnected. Either too many Harvard students share my opinion on his writing, or Brown forgot to write the check for his last phone bill. But to more important matters--the editorial. Brown's views on the Confederate flag are all too well known on this campus, as are his views on anyone who happens to disagree with those opinions--the mark of a truly open mind...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Opinion Page Too Much to Bear | 5/17/1996 | See Source »

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