Word: dumbness
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...people are not aware of any danger, that they don't know what it is all about? I don't think so. I think they are pretty much aware of their danger; they are willing to do anything to win this war. They are not apathetic and dumb...
...Airacobra fighter] will climb like a homesick angel," reads one. "A bt-13 [Vultee trainer] won't." , Officially unmentioned but part & parcel of the safety campaign is a grapevine disciplinary system. The accident-preventers launch a word-of-mouth report that Pilot Joe Doe pulled a pretty dumb one when he groundlooped that P-4O. Presently the gossip reaches Pilot Joe Doe, who feels terrible...
...slight pay, the dreams of better jobs and bossy executive positions began to grow increasingly vague. Especially since there was now a mediocre wife and two mediocre kids. But it must be tough, Vag felt, to have no one to take it out on but a bunch of dumb pupils who didn't appreciate how great he really could have been if he had only had some breaks or had the time...
What Then Shall We Do? This question Biologist Wells answers with another questionקs Homo Tewler born dumb or is he made dumb? Is Tewleremia hereditary or environmental? If the former, the end of man (thanks to the appalling power of human ingenuity) is not far off Another war or two will do it, if this one fails. But if, as Wells believes, Homo Tewler is a bundle of terribly conditioned reflexes, then he is redeemable. First however, he must discard his mental and social shackles, do the two things he is conditioned never to do: listen to reason...
Several Adams House men don't believe in "that be kind to dumb animals stuff" any more, according to latest reports from the cat front. They have been feeding a feline through a B-B gun hole in the window of a store on Bow Street, wherein the tabby was trapped, for the last few days. But they weren't able to get enough food in that...