Word: moronization
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...conclusions Father Theodore Purcell drew after 44 months at the packinghouses could have been deduced by anyone above the level of a moron, by simple application of everyday logic. His discovery of the "dual allegiance" is nothing more than a digging up, from the graveyard of the obvious, a concept fossilized into a platitude...
...Philip's defense, the clerical British Weekly said, "The Duke of Edinburgh is not a royal moron, and there is no reason why he should be expected to behave like one." As the royal party took off, Elizabeth had at least the satisfaction of knowing that Parliament had enough faith in her husband to pass the bill she had asked for, making him Regent to rule for Prince Charles in case of her death...
...know that is a trick question. Do you think I'm a political moron? How many times will you use my name to get headlines? You know I swore to this un der oath [in 1950], and if you had any real evidence I'd be indicted . . . Just to be mentioned before this committee is like the Spanish Inquisition...
...American marsupial, says Dr. Hartman, is a congenital moron. In its tiny skull there is room for only a meager brain. Fertility, not intelligence, is the reason for its survival. Its popping, jet-black eyes are all pupil and ought to be sharp at night, but even in daylight they are dim and dull. Only its hearing is keen (its thin ears curl over to keep out insects during sleep), and its bristling whiskers have a superfine sense of touch. On his short legs, the possum meanders in a slow, aimless shuffle. As a climber he shows his greatest skill...
...stood on the burning deck was a moron, Professor Harry Allen Overstreet once told a child-study group. "He did not have the intelligence to adapt himself to a changing situation." In 1939, convinced that modern man is a boy on the burning deck of the aoth century, he quit his philosophy post at Manhattan's City College and turned to writing and lecturing. Author Overstreet soon gathered a new class bigger than any teacher's dream...