Word: dumbing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...miss the point. Hypocrisy is nothing new for Americans, and, like it or not, many think that marital fidelity is an important campaign issue. Also, the press is somewhat vindicated by Hart's invitation to follow him. As most political pundits have been quick to note, anyone who is dumb enough to ask for camouflaged reporters deserves to get them...
...amateur airplane pilot Kirk Gibson goes for $41. More than five hours later, the auction closes with the march of the scrubeenies, the cheap players who fill out everyone's roster. There are still some good buys for those who have husbanded their money, either by design or dumb luck. The Moosers grab Milwaukee's Cecil Cooper for $3, the same price that Nova pays for Catcher Ron Hassey. Pitiably, the once mighty Reggie Jackson commands merely a single buck as the Hackers' designated hitter...
...blaming everybody but themselves: "How could it have happened? What did the American people know and when did they know it? They knew everything from the start and did nothing about it. They like him because they're like him: well-meaning, optimistic, credulous, stubborn and a little bit dumb...
...dotted with highlights a child might recognize, from the Statue of Liberty to the Golden Gate Bridge; the recorded narration too is now by a child: Braden Danner, who appears live in the Main Stem's other big new musical, Les Miserables. Along with these bright ideas came a dumb one: instead of having the skating encircle the audience, as in London, the races now take place within the confines of the stage. Thus there is no longer much sense of the spectator's being part of the action. At Coney Island, the roller derby or rock concerts, that feeling...
...adventure started in 1979, when photographer Nicholas B. Dean '57, who was working for the National Maritime Museum at the time, discovered the ship "by dumb luck." A local historian in the Falklands mentioned to Dean, who is from Maine, that there was a Maine-built ship in the shallow water under a harbor dock, Dean said...