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Word: morons (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...actor": "It's wonderful, this freedom. You can live on the money you save on aspirin. The only trouble is, I keep thinking of jokes and I don't know what to do with them." As for TV, Allen found it "too graphic. In radio, even a moron could visualize things his way; an intelligent man, his way. It was a custom-made suit. Television is a ready-made suit. Everyone has to wear the same...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Entrances & Exits | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

...while.") The love situation is complicated when some of the disgruntled veterans put Easy Jones (Mr. Scholl) up to run against Hominy. However, as dishonest as Hominy is, he is colorful--as we say here in Boston--while this Easy Jones character appears to be simply a wholesome moron. I would vote for Hominy, myself...

Author: By George A. Leiper, | Title: THE PLAYGOER | 11/2/1949 | See Source »

Last week, as Perón bade him goodbye at Moron airport, Ambassador Bruce could tell himself that he had fulfilled Harry Truman's 1947 orders to "go down and make friends with those people." He could also say that he had made some dent in Argentine economic thinking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARGENTINA: Buttons & Business | 8/29/1949 | See Source »

Such an aromatic parcel of dogma is not worth refuting. I merely suggest that Hero Jones study the theory of the yin and the yan; the theory of extremes engendering their opposites; the moron's ability to reason in terms of black and white morality. The technique of loaded language the need not study...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Attacks Jones | 2/1/1949 | See Source »

...yanked out the six teeth. President Perón not only liked the job; he liked Tylman. Thereafter Tylman was a regular dinner guest at the presidential residence. When he departed for the U.S. last week, Perón, Eva, Ivanissevich and other high functionaries drove out to Moron airport...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARGENTINA: Open Wide | 1/10/1949 | See Source »

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