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Word: moronically (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Boswell Coal Co. He did not get a job. Why? Why didn't this American youth get his job? A job is the right of every American. And yet Norman R. Batcher did not get a job. Why? PM tells you why. Norman Batcher is a moron...

Author: By Arthur H. Lubow, | Title: Oh, Lampoon | 12/19/1973 | See Source »

...fire to his mattress or break a leg falling downstairs. "He moved like a somnambulist, his blue blazer spotted and rumpled, a necktie holding up his trousers," she recalled. Another friend remembers Lowry morosely entering a London restaurant with a dead white rabbit in a suitcase. Like Lenny, the moron in Of Mice and Men, Lowry had broken the animal's neck while fondling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Misadventurer | 10/29/1973 | See Source »

...suburb of Chicago. He remained there until 1942, when his father was called to diplomatic service in Washington. Young Moncreiff went to public high school in the capital and then on to Yale, where his political hero was Senator Robert Taft of Ohio, "Mr. Republican." "I was a political moron in college, a carbon copy of my father," he admits...

Author: By Leo FJ. Wilking, | Title: In Dubious Battle | 10/25/1973 | See Source »

...greatness of Harvard and the myth of Harvard are intertwined to be one. You may be the stupidest moron, and people will listen to you. if you major in economics, friends at home will ask you what you think of Nixon's economic policies. You will probably not understand those policies, may not even know they exist, and certainly will have nothing very useful or original to say, but people will listen. And you will be on the way to becoming a gentleman. You are being coopted...

Author: By Andrew P. Corty, | Title: They Will Try to Get You to Sell Out | 9/1/1973 | See Source »

...stop Biaggi or Marchi from becoming mayor, corralled his caucus and rammed through an endorsement of Wagner. Rocky's road was rougher. He had to win over five New York City G.O.P. county leaders and their executive committees. Bronx Leader John Calandra had already denounced Wagner as "a moron." The other leaders more or less shared his view. But Rockefeller summoned all five to Albany, had high state officials work them over, and won what his spokesman (not the leaders) called "a great desire to support the decision." To Marchi, the choice was brutally clear: stay...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: The Wooing of Wagner | 4/2/1973 | See Source »

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