Word: dumbness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Knowing People. The Germans knew what was ahead. A man would have to be deaf, dumb & blind not to know. Except for a few blissful days of bad weather, the air bombardment went on without letup. Deliberate, impersonal BBC announcers even gave statistics: two tons of Allied demolition bombs were smashing at Europe every minute of the day & night...
...Poor, Dumb People...
...opinions and attitudes insinuated into your news stories are often so sensible and so contrary to the baloney the rest of the press serves us, that I wonder at your little swipes at Congress. Why do you pick on them so? They are only poor, dumb people like us, trying to get along, and working under difficult conditions...
...subsided into speculation over the motives behind it. What in the world was Uncle Joe up to now? Nobody knew for certain-that was the whole point-but the theories that were put out ranged from 1) "That Stalin is one smart cookie" to 2) "Them Russians are sure dumb." Was Stalin...
Toronto's moderately Conservative Saturday Night, summed up Mr. Bracken's position: "His nightly prayer must be a desperate petition that his less restrainable followers be stricken dumb until the Halifax speech is forgotten. If they can only be kept quiet there is a possibility that the question of whether Canada should enter into a sort of consultative alliance with other nations of the Commonwealth may be considered in an atmosphere of reason, free from the exaggerations of an electoral campaign...