Word: weird
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ballot, on the grounds that such persons are likely to be slugnutty and irresponsible. "The wisdom of the founding fathers," trumpeted he, "led them to the view that youngsters under 21 were, on the whole, too foolish to vote. But not having envisaged the possibility of such weird economic philosophies as 'ham & eggs' or '$200 a month,' it apparently never occurred to them that there might be an age beyond which people would also be too foolish to vote...