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Brainy folks were also present in Lyndon Johnson's administration, especially in the Pentagon, where Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara's brilliant 'whiz kids' tried to micro-manage the Vietnam war, with disastrous results.
Thomas Sowell
War
Brainy
Brilliant
Defense
Lyndon
Secretary
Kids
Administration
Tried
Pentagon
Folks
Johnson
Results
Disastrous
Robert
Also
Were
Where
Vietnam
Vietnam War
Whiz
Present
I've been trying to think of things to tell my kids, something that I could pass down, and it's like, gee whiz, I maybe never learned anything that didn't contradict itself.
Kris Kristofferson
Down
Think
Kids
Tell
Gee
Something
Could
Never
Like
Learned
Pass
Been
Itself
Contradict
Trying
Maybe
Anything
Whiz
Things
I like to consider myself a tech fan. That doesn't mean I'm a tech whiz, by any means.
Tom Holland
Myself
Consider
Like
Any
Fan
Mean
Means
Whiz
Tech
Gee whiz, I know that some movie stars don't like to be bothered, but I don't mind. I think it's part of the package, and it's not a bother.
Charlotte Rae
Mind
Stars
Think
Gee
Some
Bother
Bothered
Part
Like
Know
Movie
Movie Stars
Package
Whiz
Writing about prayer to a secular audience is tap-dancing on the radio. I want to say, 'Gee whiz, isn't this great,' and have everyone's head cocked like the RCA dog.
Mary Karr
Great
Prayer
Writing
Dog
Secular
Everyone
Say
Gee
About
Head
Like
Audience
Want
Whiz
Radio
On the one hand, the press, television, and movies make heroes of vandals by calling them whiz kids.
Ken Thompson
Heroes
Press
Television
Kids
Make
Calling
Hand
Movies
Them
Whiz
Just about every science whiz can tell you how he or she took apart the TV or the radio when they were kids just to see how it worked. To see what the world was made of. Well, when I was a kid, I took apart fairy tales to see how they worked. To see what the world was made of.
Catherynne M. Valente
You
Science
World
Made
Every
Took
Kid
Kids
Tell
TV
See
About
He
He Or She
Tales
She
Well
Fairy
Fairy Tales
How
Were
Just
Apart
Worked
Whiz
Radio
I can't cook, unless you want Cheez Whiz on a Ritz cracker.
Meghan McCain
You
Unless
Ritz
Cracker
Want
Cook
Whiz
Homer, Vergil, Dante, Shakespeare, Goethe, Proust - not exactly authors one expects to whiz through or take lightly, but like all works of genius, they are meant to be read out loud and loved.
Andre Aciman
Genius
Dante
Out
Exactly
Shakespeare
Through
Take
Lightly
Like
Read
Proust
Loud
Expects
Authors
Goethe
Loved
Meant
Meant To Be
Whiz
Works
Homer
I look for those moments that are 'gee whiz' moments. There's some 'gee whiz' stories in our show, and they can't be written like A-1 in the Times. They have to be written more like Page 6 in the Post.
Shepard Smith
Post
Our
Those
Gee
Some
More
Written
Like
Look
Times
Stories
Page
Show
Whiz
Moments
Plus, I was a math and science whiz from my first introduction to the subjects.
David Crane
Science
First
Introduction
Plus
Math
Math And Science
Subjects
Whiz