Word: nitwit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...There is freedom, however, to debate governmental policies and discuss programs-but within limits," Mather explained. "Anyone who proclaims that Tito is a knave or a nitwit is going to land in jail in 24 hours...
...Nitwit Champion. Such thoroughness, practiced more in Europe than in the U.S., aims to develop disciplined horses that can adjust to race-track life. But there was one notable exception, a nitwit named Whirlaway, in the 1939 yearling crop...
...worldly Brendan Bracken, who impressed his listeners by his knowledge of what not to say as well as by what he said, made one tactless slip. Calling onetime No. 2 Nazi Rudolf Hess "a perfect nitwit," he added that he was "an overgrown Boy Scout." Boy Scouts did not like that, and British Boy Scouts formally told...
...Mais ou sont les neiges d'antan?' (But where are the snows of yesteryear?) "Here is your chance. This is where you go to town. Seize the nitwit by the scruff of the neck, march him out to the snow gauge and shout: " 'Right in that bucket, you fool!' "I'll bet you'll feel pretty good after that." O'Nolan knows well that the funda mental internal policy of his Government is the revival of Irish language and Irish culture. He speaks and writes Irish accurately and fluently, but he is willing...
...Beelzebub!" he roared at his right-hand man. "Get this unsufferable nitwit out of here. Put a few adders and a serpent or two into his belly to gnaw where the bullets shattered his spine. Then send him back to his hell on earth. . . ." And that is the reason why the conquered people of Europe, the "silent people" who suffer and wait and hope for liberation, first heard last week that Reinhard Heydrich, the Nazi hangman, had been killed in Czecho-Slovakia; then, later, that he was not dead but would be hopelessly crippled. Heydrich might still...