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Word: halfwit (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...penitentiary. The voices of the poor exalt Marcy: it is recalled that she went more than 20 miles through waist-deep snow to tend the dying child of a miner when no doctor would get out of bed to do the job, that she was kind to a halfwit, that she soothed an unjustly condemned man in his last hours...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Eliza Crosses Main Street | 10/19/1962 | See Source »

Half a mile from Haverstraw there lived a halfwit fellow, Half his house was brick and red, and half was wood and yellow; Half the town knew half his name but only half could spell it. If you will sit for half an hour, I've half a mind to tell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Rethurberations | 4/28/1961 | See Source »

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