In 1511, leaders in Mecca believed coffee stimulated radical thinking and outlawed the drink. In 1524, the leaders overturned that order, and people could drink coffee again.
DEMAST
Etymology
Verb
demast (third-person singular simple present demasts, present participle demasting, simple past and past participle demasted)
(transitive) To remove the mast from (a sailing ship) for storage.
(transitive) To break the mast of (a sailing ship) in an accident.
Anagrams
• madest, masted
Source: Wiktionary
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HEEDLESS
(adjective) marked by or paying little heed or attention; “We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals; we know now that it is bad economics”--Franklin D. Roosevelt; “heedless of danger”; “heedless of the child’s crying”
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