Word: softheadedness
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Thus administered, the draft threw the load onto the reserves and National Guard, predominantly veterans, who had to go when their country called. The reserves couldn't fall back on the mollycoddle collection of exemptions that a softheaded Congress had written into the draft law, and that softhearted draft...
This time John Wayne is the hardbitten U.S. Marine sergeant who runs his squad by the book. John Agar flashes his dimples petulantly as the softheaded malcontent who turns out to be manful after all. Also present or accounted for: the dumb rookie, the natural-born comedian from Joisey City...
Softheaded
. . . American men are "notoriously softheaded about their women" (TIME, May 10).
Year 1958, quote: "American Amazons have become notoriously softheaded about their men joining the MAAC (Men's Army Auxiliary Corps)."