Word: dumb
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...time to run for re-election to his House seat. The deadline is May 11. In Texas, Mattox has announced he will support Richards. Still, Democrats like White insist they will never endorse Richards, never support her and never vote for her. That is Texas Tough but Democrat Dumb...
...first of his generation to get so near the presidency. Was it all dumb luck? Garry Wills looks at the secret of his success. -- Sunbelt mud bath: Democrats in Texas, Florida and California cut each other up while G.O.P. candidates are rested, ready and rich...
...That probably was a dumb way to phrase it. I was participating in a system. I have never asked to give anybody money. A politician will come to me and say, "Will you make a contribution?" And they usually suggest a size for you to go out and try and collect. Now I didn't make all those contributions; I went out and collected them. I only contributed to the legal limit...
Collectors were dumb struck last week, after Japanese officials disclosed that the country had been flooded with at least 103,000 bogus Hirohito coins, worth an estimated $71 million. The fakes were also made of pure gold and were so well crafted that many of them had even been accepted by the Bank of Japan. Because the raw material of the coins costs less than half their face value, the potential for an easy 100% markup had apparently inspired a well-fixed free-lance minter...
...enemies. The West German government was enraged by his early 1989 columns that helped reveal that nation's complicity in the construction of a Libyan poison-gas factory, which Safire dubbed "Auschwitz in the sand." Nancy Reagan in her autobiography, My Turn, denounces various Safire columns as "heartless and dumb" and "vicious and unbelievable...