Word: daftness
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Crazy about Oil. Turner, long indulgently regarded by friends as daft about oil, got his first encouragement in 1957. He persuaded Starr Gas Co. of Midland, Texas to come in and drill by procuring leases for it on 3,000 acres. The first well struck oil, but it was mixed with so much salt water that Starr Co. despaired of getting the oil out of the petroleum-bearing strata. Disgusted, Starr sold the well, equipment and 80 acres of surrounding lease to Turner for $2,500. Undiscouraged, Turner decided to try his own method. He thought an extremely powerful pump...
When President Eisenhower two years ago first proposed "open skies" over Europe and the U.S. so that each great power could keep aerial watch against surprise attack from the other, Pravda denounced the idea as "spying," and Premier Bulganin tried to laugh it down as daft. Since then, the ratio of missile threat has turned against Moscow. The U.S., with NATO and other partners bordering close, can sight in with shorter-range missiles on the Soviet Union while the U.S. still lies beyond the reach of any but intercontinental missiles. Last week, in their first major move...
...offs of singers and adorn a chorus or dance. In the role of a warmhearted answering-service operator, she can quaver like a beldam or give a rumbling impersonation of Santa Claus. But what is perhaps more important, she can look engagingly blank or beguilingly large-eyed, can be daft, sly, small-girl, strong-minded, touching. She is an adroit performer and an inimitable personality...
...Grandmother; Joyce White as Isabel; and Lake Bobbitt as Maurice. Though perhaps a bit young-looking for the role, Bobbitt sails through the evening with a dashing naturalness. And the whole production benefits from Thaddeus Gesek's handsome settings, including a wonderful multicolored spiked mobile for the enigmatically daft first...
Turkey a young man went so daft while watching Marilyn wiggle through How to Marry a Millionaire that he slashed his wrists. The Communists have angrily denounced her as a capitalist trick to make the U.S. masses forget how miserable they really are. In Moji, Japan, her notorious nude photograph was hung in the municipal assembly building in an effort "to rejuvenate the assemblymen." In the radiation control laboratory of the world's first atomic submarine a picture of Marilyn occupies a prominent place in the Table of Elements. She is the subject of more unprintable stories than anybody...