Word: dumbness
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Cohesive Conclusion. Yet the great majority of the Negroes of Watts accepted the verdict without rioting. A window or two were smashed; a Molotov cocktail arced through the darkness. But the facts of the Deadwyler case-demonstrated to all through the dumb, impartial TV eye-carried conviction. Negro witnesses contradicted one another repeatedly, offering little to back up Mrs. Barbara Deadwyler's story that Bova had stuck his revolver through the car window to shoot her husband deliberately. One swore that the shot was fired from a moving police car; others divided on the crucial point as to whether...
...told me, shortly after the thalidomide story broke in, 1962, that his firm would be marketing thalidomide in the U.S. within six months. Some businessmen seem closely related to snails, judging from the rate at which they're facing up to the fact that consumers are not so dumb as they used...
There are a couple of new offerings. Maureen O'Hara's daughter Quinn is Rathbone's daughter Sinistra; Deborah Walley is Kirk's semifrigid girlfriend; and one Aron Kincaid does a "new" Hollywood type--the dumb blond beachboy...
...were the boys in the barracks and the girls in the bordellos below the border in Nuevo Laredo. "The Army doesn't like me to talk about that," he says, "but what the hell, I'm no angel. I'm a soldier, just a plain old dumb sergeant...
...underworld, who first gained notoriety in 1947 when Boy Friend Bugsy Siegel, Murder Inc.'s West Coast representative, was executed, gangland-style, in her Beverly Hills living room, and who later acted out a cameo role before the late Senator Estes Kefauver's Senate crime committee, playing dumb about the business dealings of her many racketeer friends but boggling Senators with her full-grown curves and succinct explanation of just why men would lavish money on a hospitable girl from Bessemer, Ala.; apparently by her own hand (barbiturates); near Salzburg, Austria, where she fled with her ski-instructor...