Word: idiot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...soldiers when Matthew walked in, a four-day pass in his pocket. With a reserve that bettered even the best British tradition, he sat down beside his wife and watched the show with her. "Everybody was in stitches, of course," related Benita. "I heard one man mutter: 'Damned idiot...
...says Potter, "there is an unpublished phrase which might be our text, '. . . if you're not one up (Blitzleiscti) you're . . . one down (Rotzleisch).' " In his constant pursuit of One-Upness, the sound Lifeman first of all makes his opponent (i.e., everybody) feel like an idiot child, a boor or a cad (heel, if opponent is an American). To a visitor, the Lifeman remarks: " 'You want a wash, I expect,' in a way which suggested that he had spotted two dirty finger-nails." A rival talker is completely thrown off his stride...
...Congressman's qualities: "The friendliness of a child, the enthusiasm of a teenager, the assurance of a college boy, the tirelessness of a bill collector, the patience of a sacrificing wife, the diplomacy of a wayward husband, the curiosity of a cat, and the good humor of an idiot...
...phony nylon deal. Sidney had been ungentlemanly enough to say that he had blown most of the swag on Rosemary, and Rosemary was afraid this was leading to a ghastly, ghastly misunderstanding. She considered Levy a "creep," she cried in tones of outraged virtue, and also a "congenital idiot." Her relations with him, she added firmly, had been only platonic. Then Rosemary poured out the classic story of the showgirl and the predatory stage-door Johnny...
Women & children were shipped to Siberia's labor camps merely because their husbands and fathers had been sentenced. Like thousands of her fellow countrymen, one idiot girl was there because she had wandered beyond the limits of her home town without official permission. Most of the political prisoners were less enlightened about their offenses than the idiot girl. Five laconic charges accounted for all of them: "counterrevolutionary agitation," "counterrevolutionary organization," "preparation for armed insurrection," "preparation for terrorism," and "espionage." One Russian girl was there because she had suggested taking Stalin's picture down from the wall...