Word: dumbness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nothing to do as "instant integration" took place without advance publicity. Only 25 white families pulled their children out of school, and such statements as that of nine-year-old Jerry McGregor were rare enough to be newsworthy. Said he as he stayed home: "I'd rather be dumb than go to school with them...
...couldn't care less about whether there is room at the top. He is a vague and vagrant first person singular who drifts through a colloid of far-out characters that are his (and his plot's) only visible means of support. His mate is a dim, dumb, sensible girl, who pulls up his socks from time to time and does her best to dry his tears of existential anguish...
...prove that the concepts and ideals of the American Revolution are still alive." Then, in a peroration more notable for its locker-room emotion than for its accurate understand ing of world opinion, he concluded: "Foreigners think we're fat, dumb and happy over here. They don't think we've got the stuff to make personal sacrifices for our way of life. You must show them. And if you don't, if any one of you does not measure up, you'll be yanked out of the ball game...
...jobs in East Germany. East Berlin commuters trying to cross the border on their way to work in West Berlin were arrested, their identification cards taken from them, and many clapped in jail. One East Berliner asked why he was being stopped and was told: "Don't play dumb." Communist vigilante squads styling themselves "Committees to Block the Slave Trade" turned commuters over to the police. Inevitably, many of the Berlin commuters joined the refugees, and now make up 20% of the stream...
When Hiss counterattacked with a libel suit, Chambers finally introduced the charge of espionage, and supported his case with the nearly forgotten documents that he retrieved from his wife's nephew, who had stored them inside an unused dumb-waiter shaft. But even then, Chambers did not produce the microfilm-later he explained that he was afraid it might contain material that would damage other people. With characteristic melodrama, Chambers hid the film roll in a hollowed-out pumpkin in a field on his Maryland farm, surrendered it only when he became convinced that a committee counsel suspected...