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Word: wittedness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then both tackles call signals for blocking assignments on the play. It sounds confusing, but to good T-men it isn't; on a play to the right side of the line, the players listen only to the right tackle, and let the left tackle chatter his deception signals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: T-Secrets | 9/19/1949 | See Source »

Neither marriage nor motherhood could save her. In her husband (Van Heflin), a dull-witted country doctor, Emma discovers an ideal cuckold. Thereafter her course is clear: the well-beaten path from boredom to eroticism to ruin. When she learns at last that her lovers-a handsome philandering landowner (Louis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Aug. 15, 1949 | 8/15/1949 | See Source »

Dimitrov was acquitted (but still held by the Nazis); his half-witted fellow defendant, Marinus van der Lubbe, was beheaded. A year later, Dimitrov was finally released to Russia, in exchange for some German spies the Russians had caught.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMUNISTS: Hero | 7/11/1949 | See Source »

This exploration led to the question of how to get the latest news about the case. Said Teacher Anderson: "Inasmuch as we use TIME and LIFE in our classroom, it was not surprising that the nimble-witted young lady who is the district attorney should ask her teacher if he...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Jun. 20, 1949 | 6/20/1949 | See Source »

Horns & Hats. None of the 40 musicians of the Cannes Municipal Orchestra had ever played a single note of modern American symphonic music; even though Conductor Horenstein found his players "quick-witted and adaptable," he still had to rehearse them three times a day, between 8 a.m. and 10 p.m...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Semaine Americaine | 4/11/1949 | See Source »

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