Word: dumbing
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...threshold of the guardhouse do you begin to feel that what you are leaving be hind you is both your prison and your homeland. This was your spiritual birthplace, and a secret part of your soul will remain here forever - while your feet trudge on into the dumb and unwelcoming expanse of freedom...
...keeping score," admitted a presidential aide. "We are looking at people who help us that we can help. But it doesn't mean we aren't helping others." The aide said the memo was "not accurate"−and even if it had been, "it was dumb to write it down." Declared Pinson, after the memo was obtained by TIME: "It is out of date. We have re-evaluated our plans...
...because he felt he couldn't miss a single taping of the Honeymooners? You know I write all my own material? Nobody else wanted to. I don't get no respect. The mailman bites my dog. My mother-in-law bites the mailman. My wife is so dumb that she thinks cataracts are just the General Motors version of Lincoln Continentals...
...give you first of several examples, when my wife asked me for a trial separation, I didn't realize that she meant my shoulder. No Respect. Thanks. But today, you are all graduating, and therefore, Respect becomes an important thing. You know, my mother-in-law is so dumb that she thinks Harvard is a liberal arts college in the Northeast... This reminds me of the time I was walking down the street just over there in Harvard Square recently and I got run over by a car... The car was moving so fast that despite the neighborhood that...
...approach to the bargaining was set by large operators who wanted to break the union. Said the owner of a tiny mine in western Pennsylvania: "The big boys ran the B.C.O.A. show, no matter what we thought. They realized that [U.M.W. President] Arnold Miller was weak and a little dumb, and saw their chance to ram a pro-company contract down the union's throat." Added another small operator: "I figure you get a lot further by courting your men instead of cussing them...