Word: dumbed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...often overemotional, occasionally theatrical (in phrases such as "Battles are merely the flashing, seductive garments that hide the passionate but terrible whore's body of war"). But it carries the conviction of a man whose spirit has been tried by seven years' intimacy with war's "dumb, bestial suffering, weariness, and utter and devastating exhaustion...
Sunday Special. In the Atlanta, Ga. Sunday Journal, a want ad wanted a strange mentality: "TYPIST-FILE CLERK, smart enough to be worth $135 a month, yet dumb enough to start for less...
...Dumb to Survive...
...people, dumb as we are, are ahead of the politicos on foreign policy. We have been in every major war, even with an isolationist policy. We can't get into any more of them than we have with an internationalist policy. So what in hell are we waiting for? ... Peoples perish because they are too dumb to survive. The only way to have peace is with an internationalist policeman's club...
...Dumb as a Fox. In Manhattan, 34-year-old Salvatore Toro convinced a judge that, although he had gone to school for eight years, he couldn't even spell out "cat," much less the notations on policy slips that police found at his home...