Word: dumbness
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Families are a funny breed. They draw, spill, suck and drink the blood they share. They seem to survive everything with dumb granitic tenacity. What they give to each other is measureless, like divine grace; what they take is inexorable, like mortal fate...
...years after taking over the Giants, Dark was fired. Temper tantrums were not the reason. Alleged racism and self-confessed philandering were the cause of his downfall. The racism charge resulted from a newspaper interview in which Dark seemed to be saying that his black and Latino players were "dumb." Dark claimed that he had been misquoted. He seemed to be riding out that storm when the Giant front office discovered that he was openly having an affair with an airline stewardess. In those days, baseball people, like the heroes of old-fashioned westerns, were supposed to be paragons...
...that while the nation lies wounded and confused, the President of the U.S. still thinks, in his fantastic arrogance, he need do nothing more than barnstorm, nothing more than instruct his "children" in speeches that are not only embarrassingly transparent but absolutely enraging in their efforts to persuade us dumb (expletive deleted...
...Expletive deleted] He was such a dumb figure, I don't see how our boys could have gone for him. But nevertheless, they did. It was really juvenile! But, nevertheless, what the hell did he do? Shouldn't we be trying to get intelligence? Weren't they...
...Expletive deleted] Of course, I am not dumb and I will never forget when I heard about this [adjective deleted] forced entry and bugging. I thought, what in the hell is this? What is the matter with these people? Are they crazy? A prank! But it wasn't! It wasn't very funny. I think our Democratic friends know that, too. They know what the hell it was . . . They don't think I would be involved in such stuff . . . They think I have people capable of it. And they are correct, in that Colson would do anything...