Word: unwittingness
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Yet Iowans were, and perhaps are, capable of some rascality. George Mills, Iowa journalist and historian, relates that in the early caucuses the requirement that time and place be posted on a tree was sometimes met by partisans' peeling the bark away, nailing the notice on the bare spot, then...
Wit, strategy, and the pleasures of the flesh have marked this year's version of the Secret Santa tradition, as students scheme to delight their unwitting "Santees" with imaginative gift-giving.
"I'm on the other line now with that Bozo Pulier. HA HA! What a moron he is! Hey, let's say bad things about him while he waits, the unwitting dupe!"
Transplanted Americans can be unwitting victims of the roller-coaster Mexican economy. Velma Dempsey, who has lived in Chapala for 17 years, recalls visiting a bank in 1982 to transfer her life savings from the U.S. Perturbed by the slow-moving line, she went home, planning to return the next...
Little investor rancor but presumably considerable discomfort was in evidence at a meeting Boesky held on Thursday at the office of his lawyers in downtown Manhattan. In attendance were some of the 43 limited partners who had anted up $221 million in capital for his major arbitrage fund, Ivan F...