Word: wittedness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Parcels & Patience. This attitude changed later. The first time Renault was picked up, with his pockets bulging with dispatches, he talked so fast and furiously that his slow-witted examiner gave up and let him go without even searching him. After his network had been sending out messages for several...
The U.S. delegate, Harvard's sharp-witted Prof. Zechariah H. Chafee Jr., a member of the Commission on Freedom of the Press and author of a two-volume study of the press, waited 40 minutes for Lomakin to talk himself out. Then Chafee slyly quoted from a State Department...
Before U.N., at many an inter-American conference and in dozens of crises, the quick-witted Brazilian had engineered the compromises that held the hemisphere together. He always knew how to break an impasse with a joke and he could drop a tear at the twist of a metaphor.
To replace this left-wing triumvirate, the U.A.W. got a Reutherite secretary-treasurer, Emil Mazey, 34, tough and trigger-witted co-director of U.A.W. operations on Detroit's East Side; and two Reutherite vice presidents, plodding Richard Gosser, 46, of Toledo, and organizing expert John Livingston, 39, of St...
While "Gus the Great" is an accurate period piece, replete with all the false morality and ostentation overflowing from the Victorian age, the characters surrounding Gus Burgoyne provide the real heart and value of the book. Mr. Duncan understands the people in his novel; he allows each the perspective of...