Word: dumbed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ironically, Gandhi himself, who has spent a lifetime trying to direct the waters into disciplined channels, had helped to roil his people into turbulence. What he had called the "dumb, toiling, semi-starving millions," who revered (and sometimes worshiped) Gandhi, could understand him when he cried for their freedom; they could not always understand him when he told them they must not use violence to win that freedom. "To inculcate perfect discipline and nonviolence among 400,000,000," he once said, "is no joke...
...ended, Billy "went on the bum, mostly because I wanted to find a way to the top." He found that way six months later, back in New York. One night in a Manhattan delicatessen, he met some songwriters. After Baruch, they looked to Billy like "a buncha dumb-heads"-until somebody told him they made 40 and 50 grand a year. "Just like that," says Rose, "I decided that this was the grift...
...arrived at the top, and started to push in. Passing the man in the cage he stopped; it reminded him of coming out again, with the book. What book? Why get it? You don't need it, he realized. You don't need any books at all. Vag, you dumb bastard, after the orals there's nothing more, you're done, you don't need the book at all. He looked long and very sadly at the man in the cage and started diagonally--it was the only way--down the stairs...
...about the only pure beings to be found in a world of reeking garbage." There was also frustrated Author Leo Stein, whose loathing of his prolific sister, Gertrude, was a feature of the boulevards. "My God, Sam!" Leo would groan to Author Putnam, "You have no idea how dumb she is! Why, when we were in school, I used to have to do all her homework...
...dumb nor so gruff as he acts, Slim Lynch, like many an oldtime newsman, finds it amusing to pretend he is semiliterate. Says he: "People always embarrass me when they talk about style. I don't know how to start a story or end it. I just put down simple words and I write about simple things. I use my feet and get around and talk to a lot of people...