Word: idiot
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...been lost by default" -- a dire prediction that suggested Reagan was correct in his assessment. Phillips went on to viciously condemn the right wing's onetime standard-bearer. Reagan, he fumed, "is a very weak man with a strong wife and a strong staff. He has become a useful idiot for Soviet propaganda." Dole and other Republican Senators also lashed back: Dole chided the President in the White House, while on the Senate floor Wyoming's Malcolm Wallop called Reagan's remarks "offensive...
...Five out of the six candidates for the Republican presidential nomination oppose the treaty, under which the Soviets will dismantle three times as many warheads as the West. That's not good enough. The most conservative president of this century, it turns out, is no more than a "useful idiot for Kremlin propaganda," according to the head of the Conservative Caucus, one of the president's earliest and (until now) most ardent supporters...
...very well might -- the talks will be racing a deadline of sorts. If a budget compromise is not worked out and enacted by Nov. 20, some $23 billion of automatic spending cuts go into effect under a modified version of the Gramm-Rudman Act. They would slash away with idiot impartiality at defense and social spending, at good programs and bad. And that would just about end any chance that Washington would give the stock markets the signal they yearn...
...influenced me like many other scholars of all political leanings in my generation. However, while respecting and learning from this tradition of scholarship, I have long disagreed with most of its basic tenets. The most cursory reading of my works should make this clear to any but an idiot or a new right extremist. It would also show that I am not a mainstream liberal or a conservative, that indeed the only fitting label for me is that I am the world's first Pattersonist...
...Idiot-Savant Handbook, by Ronald Patrick MacMurphy. In a few short pages (and huge bold type) the author explains how to remember what the weather was like every day for the last 100 years. My favorite, page 14: "May 27, 1932: It was cloudy." The book also explains how to remember what day of the week it was for every day of the last 500 years. For example, November 20, 1965 was a Saturday. The epilogue also tells you how to get on "60 Minutes" after memorizing the book...