Word: dumb
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...supporters were appalled. "It's disheartening that a large number of fairly intelligent people could do such a dumb thing," lamented Nobel- prizewinning physicist Leon Lederman. His frustration is understandable. Since the 1930s, physicists have been using accelerators to smash atoms together and analyze the debris, with an impressive result: the discovery that matter in all its complex forms seems to be made up of just a few simple particles operating under a handful of basic forces. But this so-called Standard Model is a puzzle that's not quite complete, and finding the last pieces would take something like...
...plainly, the premise of the "don't ask, don't tell" policy (and of this editorial) is ill-conceived--you might say dumb. Support for "don't ask, don't tell" demonstrates a wishy-washy perspective...
...These kids are dumb. "Neither the leadership nor the individuals had reason to know the University's Confiscation of Publications on Campus Policy," says Arnold's report. Maybe so, but I think sitting up nights planning to trash newspapers would qualify as a "reason to know" the University's thoughts on the subject. And if they thought that Penn was going to encourage such an activity, the investigation should be widened to include the Office of Admissions...
...possible places on my body where I wouldn't mind having a tattoo. I came up with one: my hip. Low enough that it really wouldn't be seen by too many people. ("What happens if you're pregnant someday? Won't it stretch out and look dumb?" one of my roommates asked. No, it would look cool, Seth told me when I repeated her question...
Moore's fleet is diverse in type as well as in personality. In addition to passenger elevators, it includes handicapped lifts, dumb waiters and freight elevators, which are divided into electric and hydraulic-powered mechanisms...