Word: benightedness
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My reactions shuttle from anger to pity for the benighted clergyman in McPherson who cautioned Postmistress Rozella Switzer that "we must be careful we're not called Communists . . ."
If Capp is ever realty brutal with the benighted staff members of LIME magazine, it will be at least partly because of his own experiences as a TIME cover subject (Nov. 6, 1950). "For years I felt very badly that TIME had been doing covers of Joe DiMaggio, Churchill, Eisenhower...
Say the authors: "We have almost forgotten it, in this last half of the twentieth century, but the most important question about the coed at one time was simply this: Why should women go to college at all? A great many people believed, in all sincerity, that undue mental strain...
After circulating a questionnaire, Dr. Vinnard found that in many cases, hospitals and doctors used the old cautery method because they thought the law required them to, or because public-health officials prescribed it. (One benighted hospital in Wisconsin used it against the recommendation of public-health authorities who advised...
Hot Desks & Melon Balls. Groggle spouts 20th Century attitudes, but seethes with Neanderthal prejudices. In the business world, he can stand dilettante competition from women who are "on the marriage-market." "But let a poor benighted female . . . get serious about working, and she is relegated to a class with Catherine...