Word: dumbness
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Meanwhile, he continued, American trained pilots are bombing defenseless vilages, but the American people are "dumb enough" to believe that the U.S. is on a mission of mercy in the Congo...
...that it reads like today's newspaper in a common-denominator prose, Translator Speiser sacrifices vision along with poetic diction. The opening lines of Genesis sound like a weather report on Hurricane Hilda instead of an image or symbol of the active power of God brooding over dumb creation and awakening a response...
Consummate Cleavage. The second segment was about a lantern-jawed toad (Jack Klugman), whose secretary was so dumb that she wrote him notes so badly garbling the English language that she said RETURN A MOOSE'S HARNESS when she meant RETURN MRS. HARRIS' CALL. It fuzz not fairy hill airy us. But the third was plotted with Elizabethan comedic geometries. The net end of its contrivances was to place a consummately luscious, half-dressed young wife in the same apartment with two unlikely men, both innocent of adulterous intent, while her savagely jealous husband was closing...
...White Plains. The Murphys' housekeeper and the Rockefellers' children's nurse made their appearance in turn, but reporters were reduced to watching them emerge from closed limousines. Occasionally, an enterprising reporter caught glimpses of the witnesses and principals through the windows, performing as in a dumb show. Twice the Murphy children-James, 13, Margaretta, 11, Carol, 8, and Malinda, 4-were shepherded into the judge's closed chambers...
...flight, Oswald ran within twelve feet of one witness, who heard him mutter either "poor damn cop" or "poor dumb cop." Another witness reported the killing to headquarters on Tippit's car radio, and almost immediately sirens whined through the neighborhood. Oswald paused in the doorway of a shoe store managed by one Johnny Calvin Brewer. Then, while Brewer watched, Oswald, disheveled and panting, ducked into the lobby of the Texas Theater. Cashier Julia Postal saw him, but when she heard the police sirens she stepped out of the box office. Brewer asked her if the man who had just...