Word: dumbest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...University of Nebraska graduate who put in a two-year stretch at Leavenworth says: "The guards were the dumbest, most conservative s.o.b.s I've ever seen, but they were not half as bad as the other prisoners. It seemed like the two most despised groups were the C.O.s and the sexual perverts." For most of the resisters, the biggest enemies are boredom, lack of privacy, separation from friends and loved ones, and petty harassment by guards. They work as prison-library clerks, auto-shop mechanics, gardeners, dishwashers or launderers. Some of them find the repressive atmosphere of prison just...
...idea, although newcomers are shocked by the easy give-and-take of discussions. At his Episcopal church in Ignacio, Calif., Vicar Charles Gompertz occasionally stirs up dialogue by stationing a "plant" in the congregation. During a sermon, the plant may stand up and yell: "That's the dumbest thing I've ever heard!" Says Gompertz: "It really blows their minds...
...just what's wrong with you people anyway? After the recent events in Viet Nam you should be dancing in the streets. From a military standpoint it's the dumbest move the Commies could have made. For over two years now, your boys have been poking behind trees and down holes in the ground looking for Charlie, and Charlie has been found only when he wanted to be found and when conditions were all in his favor. Now he has very obligingly congregated in the heart of the cities and sits there waiting to be wiped...
...sawed-off (5 ft. 6 in.) onetime third baseman for the Cincinnati Reds, who ate a lot of chile con carne and acted that way, squaring off nose to belt with 6-ft. umpires and peppering his men with insults ("All ballplayers is dumb, but outfielders is the dumbest"), an approach which took him in and out of nine teams as a coach or manager, and somehow gave him two years of glory when he led the Brooklyn Dodgers to pennants in 1952 and 1953; of a heart attack; in Detroit...
Crumlish Jr., his former boss, but also inveighed against Mayor James Tate, whom he branded as the "dumbest mayor ever in a big city." Beating his Democratic opponent by 325,395 votes to 289,174, Specter became the first Republican candidate to win a major municipal office in Philadelphia in a dozen years...