Word: witness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Love and I had the wit...
...Army is well equipped-superbly equipped considering Russia's wartime poverty-chiefly because its leaders, General Zhukov included, had the wit and, courage to retain and build up great reserves of munitions when the richest lands and cities of Russia were falling to the Germans. The true extent of those reserves, known only to the Red Army command, is one of the factors which will determine the course and outcome of the winter's battles. And if worse comes to worst and the winter offensives fail, Joseph Stalin, Georgy Zhukov and the rest of the Red Army command...
...Estramudo. A mountebank comes by, warms to the lady, tries to win her favor by claiming to be Estramudo. (Actually, her own husband is.) These and a lot of other old-fashioned absurdities of plot are blown up with old-fashioned extravagances of diction. Now & then a flash of wit serves for punctuation...
...that he went to Egypt. To his superiors and his men, to whom he is known as "The Chief," Arthur Tedder presents the same half-amused, scrutinizing, birdlike face. When Churchill arrived, Tedder slouched in an easy chair, exasperated his boss at first with his frankness and biting wit...
They took it lightly as they take their whole program-even its scripting, which Ace does himself. Unlike Fred Allen (who overmodestly says Goodman Ace is America's greatest wit), Goodman Ace burns no midnight oil, drips no sweat. He usually tosses off a script in an hour and a half. His cigars give him a convenient yardstick: a one-cigar script is apt to be terrific, a two-or three-cigar script fair, a four-cigar script a stinkaroo. Rehearsals are similarly carefree. A light once-over usually suffices. Anything more than that, Goodman Ace insists, kills...