Word: dumbness
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Poppity-Pop. A lean and toothless old man with a long nose that had been broken twice by fists and at least once by a horse's hoof. Cowboy Kelly hated the 20th century. He went to his last movie in 1929. He would fall dumb when confronted with a telephone, flatly refused to ride in airplanes, insisted that all substitutes for the horse were a danger to life and limb ("They will kill you off! They go like hell, poppity-pop and hellity-scoop"). Like Pieter Brueghel the Elder, whom he admired so much, he filled his canvases...
...observers. The U.S. State Department was unable to bring itself to congratulate an ally on its technical achievement, would say only in a one-sentence statement that the event was not "unexpected." With whom this squeamish reticence was supposed to win favor was not indicated. Great Britain remained officially dumb as well, although the opposition Labor Party denounced the French. Unlike Red China ("a defiance of world opinion") and East Germany ("an atomic crime!"), the Soviet Union merely expressed its "regret" in tones that indicated more sorrow than anger. On a visit to India, Red Boss Nikita Khrushchev took...
Blasting the whispers of the morning dumb...
...hell, see. Just a handful of G.I.s and some fawning Burmese out there in the Kachin hills, and a Japanese peeping from behind every other orchid. Fortunately, the enemy looked like monkeys and were awfully dumb. U.S. Army Captain Frank Sinatra was running the show, a Tommy gun in one hand and a bottle in the other. What a man. They called him "the Abe Lincoln of North Burma." Back in Calcutta on leave, Frankie met Gina Lollobrigida, who decided he was the biggest thing to hit those parts since Errol Flynn. "Say," said Frank, "you're put together...
...Council voted to establish a committee with Reiff as chairman to publicize an experimental sale next year. Reiff suggested a slogan to the effect of "Keep your books; you can pawn them off on a dumb Freshman in the fall...