Word: dumbness
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...editors of the "Cehisean," the Central High yearbook, had rejected a batch of his drawings. At the age of 53, he made sure that a high school report card was printed in facsimile in a collection of his work "to show my own children that I was not as dumb as everyone has said I was." He sustained the traumas of his adolescence far into adulthood - far enough, in the end, to see them become a crucial element in the universal popularity...
...your movie, Sarah Jessica Parker plays an actress who refuses to take her top off, which she refuses to do in real life. Were you able to convince her of how dumb this rule...
College dropout Hoku releases pop single, Another Dumb Blonde...
...being seen as a man presumptuously grasping at the Oval Office, so he relied on Cheney's aura of authority and competence to persuade Americans that the race was finally over and Gore should give up. "A lot of you wrote stories back in July that Cheney was a dumb pick," says Ron Kaufman, a G.O.P. consultant who worked in Bush's father's White House. "He sure doesn't look like a dumb pick now, does...
Here lies one of the more counterintuitive developments of the standardized-testing movement: Though some critics complain that teachers are forced to dumb down their lessons and "teach to the test," some schools are offering more challenging course work as a way of engaging students. In the past three years, scores of elementary schools in high-stakes testing states such as Texas, Virginia and Massachusetts have added Latin programs. Says Allen Griffith, a member of the Fairfax City school board: "If we're trying to improve English skills, teaching Latin is an awfully effective, proved method...