Word: knucklehead
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...with the exception of some knucklehead who would have won the thing had he not picked Miami (Fla.) to win the tournament, everyone else has Duke beating UConn in the finals...
...some knucklehead in his soul too. While a genial fountain of joy, Armstrong was a street boy, and he had a dirty mouth. It was his shooting off a pistol on New Year's Eve that got him thrown into the Colored Waifs' Home, an institution bent on refining ruffians. It was there that young Louis first put his lips to the mouthpiece of a cornet. Like any American boy, no matter his point of social origin, he had his dreams. At night he used to lie in bed, hearing the masterly Freddie Keppard out in the streets blowing that...
This is an unworthy fear. By this time we should have learned to trust the cockeyed integrity of Ron Shelton, who directed and co-wrote (with John Norville) the film. Surely the movies' reigning poet of knucklehead machismo, the man who gave us Bull Durham and Cobb, will find an entertaining and instructive way for Roy to immolate himself...
...could about his testy confrontations with General Douglas MacArthur (whom he disliked and considered a racist). To a remarkable extent, he inoculated himself against the tiresome affectations that often afflict famous, high- achieving people. He didn't stand on formality (clerks simply called him "Judge"; he often called us "Knucklehead" and shared his macadamia nuts when our work pleased him). He spoke cordially to everyone, high and low, though his unpretentiousness sometimes tempted people to underestimate him. Every time I did, he caught me. Late in the court's term, I wrote a draft of an opinion in which...