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crackbrained

[krak-breynd] / ˈkrækˌbreɪnd /


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Ideas Sirs: Considering the number of crackbrained ideas sponsored by Franklin Roosevelt does he not deserve the name Franklin "Stoopnagle" Roosevelt?

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Out of the quarrel was born the first Ironman Triathlon: 15 seemingly crackbrained humans on a 2.4-mile ocean swim followed by a 112-mile bike race followed by a 26.2-mile marathon run.

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Despite the crackbrained ideas, a former official of the National Security Council maintains that LaRouche has "one of the best private intelligence services in the world."

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Most of the State had always assumed that the canal was a crackbrained project which a few boosters promoted for profit or publicity.

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His operations in this direction were mostly limited to sending crackbrained letters to the Civil Governor in Manila from his “camp in the sky,” but his perturbation of the rural districts had to be suppressed.

From The Philippine Islands by John Foreman




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