Word: ignoramuses
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...stinking, lousy shovel." Not surprisingly, it was his tongue (which a Manila hostess once suggested he should send to the laundry) that got him into trouble. Lacson was sued for libel-and gladly suspended by President Quirino-after he publicly denounced his deputy chief of police as "ignorant, an ignoramus and incompetent...
...incident also drew the attention of the authorities to Bekbayev, who, reported Pravda, turned out to be an "ignoramus, bluffer and suppressor of self-criticism." Among other crimes, he had only had a grade-school education and had issued himself two phony diplomas, one of them making him a "Master of Sports...
...scientific knowledge increased that it has become impossible for one man to comprehend all of it even in outline form. The result has been an increasing number of trained people who know their own field and little else-a type of what Ortega y Gasset calls the "learned ignoramus...
...young (37) White House physician was there to assert that he was an utter ignoramus about his speculation in the commodity markets. He almost succeeded in proving it. Although he was a trader on margin, he said he did not know the meaning of the term "margin" (a woman sitting behind him snickered: "That's what you spread on bread...
...interment of inflation. The recession, they said, would come in the spring. As Barron's financial weekly put it: "The 1947 depression, recession, or shakeout, whichever one calls it, has advanced from a fear to a fad. Not to believe in its imminence stamps one an ignoramus...