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Word: dumbing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Ubert and Burns aren't "dumb jocks" here. Harvard took them for how they perform in the classroom, as well as on the football field...

Author: By Jennifer M. Frey, | Title: Harvard's Buckeye Boys | 11/19/1988 | See Source »

...typical coming-of-age teen sex comedy. Your expectations will be fulfilled. The characters are typical of the genre; the plot line is paper-thin; and the ideas are mawkish and trite. What Hooters lacks in substance, however, it makes up for in entertainment value. The result is a dumb play that is, nevertheless, amusing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Stage Door | 11/4/1988 | See Source »

...farm in Idalou, in the flatlands of West Texas, with an ashy-silver half-plate moon in the blue sky, the rally crowd was being warmed up by Texas agriculture commissioner Jim Hightower, a charismatic populist with a talent for comic fulmination. Dan Quayle, said Hightower, is so dumb he "thinks Cheerios are doughnut seeds." And: "If ignorance ever goes to $40 a barrel, I want the drilling rights on George Bush's head...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Of Myth and Memory | 10/24/1988 | See Source »

...contain one implicit assumption: Dukakis shouldn't defend the Massachusetts program on its own merits, because prison furloughs are a bad thing. Even the liberal Perspective chastised Dukakis' stand, saying "It doesn't take an MBA from Harvard to know that giving furloughs to first-degree murderers is a dumb idea...[T]he governor's lack of political acumen on the furlough issue is troubling...

Author: By John L. Larew, | Title: Assault on Furloughs | 10/22/1988 | See Source »

...only thing dumber than the questions about taking over the presidency in an emergency ("What would be the first steps you would take?") was Dan Quayle's failure to point out just how dumb...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: Dumb Question, Worse Answer | 10/17/1988 | See Source »

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