Word: dumbed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Washington"; 5) "Wheeler is a good fellow, but he can't stand up to Nye"; 6) "Taft is coming along, but he is still old-fashioned"; 7) "Surrounded by a circle of advisers of the nationalist type, Lindbergh would make an excellent nominal leader"; 8) Colonel McCormick-"Dumb. No brains...
...year after General Marshall had become Chief of Staff, Terry Allen received his first star. Over the head of many a colonel who had rated him a rather dumb and charming rake, he was jumped from lieutenant colonel to temporary brigadier general...
Whether Chick knew how to do it all the time and just played dumb at the start, we will never know. But he certainly caught on fast and won the resulting competition. Anyone interested in samba lessons at reasonable rates should contact Mr. Soloway...
...test pilots, A.R.P. workers, reception mothers for evacuees, and bus drivers; for farmers and miners; for clergymen and educators; for merchants, musicians and artists. Annie Norris, 67-year-old farm laborer's wife, received the British Empire Medal for "unremitting care" of child evacuees, as did a deaf & dumb air-raid warden, who divines air raids by the warning vibrations of a piece of metal held in his hand...
Today ATC has some 50,000 men to fly and service its planes, maintain its far-flung bases, forecast the weather, operate its communications system. In the words of their chief, "All of them are too young and too dumb to know what's impossible, so they do it." They are only the beginning of the force ATC will have by year's end. By then Hal George will, be able to say, with even more conviction than he does now, that ATC will have laid the pattern for something more than winning the war. It will also...