Word: flummoxed
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Dates: during 1954-1954
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...noted by the powers in Whitehall and ticketed for future office. Nervous, witty and aloof, Rab debated energetically, was elected president at the age of 21. One summer he led a debating team to the U.S., bringing back a report that "we found the earnest, logical Yankees easy to flummox, except for the Vassar girls, who ran circles round us." Once Stanley Baldwin came to argue against the motion: "That this House has the highest regard for rhetoric." (He lost, with Rab casting the deciding vote against him.) Rab escorted Baldwin to the station next morning, where...