Word: eggheaded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Strangelove, Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb. The egghead President of the United States, one Mirkin Muffley, chirrups into the phone to the Soviet Premier: "Now, then, Dimitri, you know how we've always talked about the possibility of something going wrong with the bomb? The bomb, Dimitri. The hydrogen bomb. Well now, what happened is that one of our base commanders did a silly thing. He, uh, went a little funny in the head. You know, funny. He ordered our planes to attack your country . . . Let me finish, Dimitri...
...must be both for and against unions, both Republican and Democrat, yet have "no political bias at all." In breathless order, the next Wayne president must be: "A pragmatic realist, tough, resilient, strong, self-reliant, brave, determined, practical, objective, hardworking, intelligent, flexible, responsible, humble, religious, Godfearing, altruistic, no egghead, socially attractive, good-natured, friendly, and a rugged individualist with high moral character and good judgment." The alumni do not demand that on top of all this he must also be a "scholar...
West Germans have literally translated American expressions, such as Imgleichen Boot sitzen (to be in the same boat), and Germanized others, such as Beiproduct, brandneu, Eierkopf, Herzattacke, kalter Krieg, (byproduct, brand-new, egghead, heart attack, cold war). They assimilate the unassimilable by total adoption-beatnik, baby sitter, bootlegger, bulldozer, king-size, scooter and stripper. Hundreds of American words have become German Verbs-parken, twisten, hitchhiken. The Luftwaffe fills the air with bilingual babble: "Aber no sweat, boy, no sweat. Ich habe normal letdown procedure gemacht...
Drawing support from such far-out groups as the Birchers, Scott advised voters to "shoot the works" by sending him to Congress and his political idol, Barry Goldwater, to the White House. He dismissed Democrat Hove as a "fuzzy, liberal, socialist egghead," concentrated his fire on Fellow Republican Andrews. "The middle of the road has shifted to the left of center," cried Scott of Andrews' moderate views. "The center line on the highway is dangerous ground...
...others are abroad in Nantes, toiling at art, literature and history taught in French. Hardly any of the summer students are flunkees trying to catch up. The extra work will not get them to college a minute sooner. They just like it. "It's the day of the egghead," chortles Chemistry Teacher Lawrence Lynch. A measure of the results is that last year Beverly Hills' school average on the national Iowa Tests of Educational Development was in the 99th percentile...