Word: crackpot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...beauty mud, monkey glands and the double-knobbed electric revitalizer (with storage batteries), was off again. It has developed a fevered interest in almost anything that promises to forestall atomic disintegration. Last week the Civil Defense Administration was having about as much trouble with pamphleteers and crackpot inventors as with the problems of preparing for the Big Bang...
...professor of Business Administration, said that he had served with Remington on the War Production Board in Washington at one time. He also said that the chemical formula for making rubber or gasoline from garbage, which Remington is alleged to have given to the Soviets, was treated as a "crackpot idea" in office gossip...
...duty "to hold a referendum in exceptional cases, where widespread feeling demands, or when a petition signed by 200 students requests it, on any proposal concerned with student affairs," Meeting on October 29, the council decided to abolish the students' right to the initiative because it feared that any "crackpot" proposal could muster 200 signatures and that it would be swarmed under with unreasonable requests for referenda. It argued that the council was theoretically a responsible group and could exercise "common sense" on matters of public debate. This point of view, many observers felt, developed from a fear of future...
...With two hundred signers, a three-quarter vote then bound the Council to act in accordance with the student opinion. Dropping the provision will enable the Council to act more efficiently, its leaders tell us. No longer will it be bothered by the "joker element" of students that introduces crackpot referenda...
...officialdom, demanding and pleading for a new trial. He got a break. The prosecutor received two anonymous letters from a man who said that he, and not Williams, was guilty. Assistant Corporation Counsel Clark F. King denounced the letters as a hoax and the work of a crackpot, but on the strength of them, Williams' lawyers got a new hearing for him. But still Defendant Williams' troubles multiplied. Prosecutor King produced a police handwriting expert who solemnly testified that Williams' 18-year-old daughter Evangeline had written the letters, just to protect her father. When he heard...