Word: daftness
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...Baptist preacher, calling on the coalowners to repent of their "anti-working-class sins" before it was too late. In & out of jail, "Li'l Arthur" Horner worked wonders for the miners, and they loved him for it. Most of them thought he was simply daft when he announced, in 1947, that "if there were a possibility of war with Russia, the [British] coal fields would stop...
Nobody could ever quite do that. At a meeting of the chemistry faculty, Albert lost his head. When somebody questioned a point in a paper he was reading, he called the man "daft," and went on blustering long after he was proved wrong. The fellowship he was seeking went to another man. Albert blamed the setback on treachery, and concluded that Dibdin didn't "know one end of a molecule from the other...
...apprentice coal miner was the 16sth - and youngest - recipient of the silver medal, Britain's highest honor for noncombatant bravery. "I think it's a bit daft," said Jack. "I didn't really do owt [anything...
...West Coast, it often has a rough-diamond, loud-check sense of fun about it; and can be strenuously youthful as well as unpolished. But it has the greatest of assets for an intimate revue-a satiric eye and sassy tongue; and when it manages to be deft and daft at once, is thoroughly hilarious...
...sermon, there were no letters. One woman, who didn't think the blight was over, predicted that they would start again with the next new moon. Last week she got one: "You are a fine one to talk about the full moon affecting anyone as you are a daft bitch whether the moon is full, new or waning. ... If the vicar wasn't so dull he would easily find out who is sending these poison letters...