Word: witness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...unnoticed if campaign staffers had not thought of sending a mission to Peking as a means of showing the ticket's concern about foreign affairs. Reagan's staffers decided to send Bush, who had been a former envoy to Peking. No one on the staff had the wit or prescience to draw up a position paper to help either Bush or Reagan when tough questions about Taiwan came up on both sides of the Pacific...
...pass their time giggling over passages from the Song of Solomon, gorging themselves on "scrummy" (scrumptious) scones and honing their Olympian disdain for anyone not of good family. The school is a microcosm of colonial society: the rich Anglified girls lording it over a poor Aussie with a quick wit. Laura doesn't fit: she is too thin and gawky, too smart and eager. In an attempt to see Laura's world through her eyes, Director Beresford turns the other girls into vaudeville minxes and betrays a weakness for the ingratiating visual cliché. But the film sparks...
Kathleen Eliot, former dean of Radcliffe said yesterday Jordan "had great dynamism and wit; her wit and vitality of mind stayed with her until the very...
...each of the speakers will surely remind you. A real live opportunity to hear the pillars of the Harvard establishment expound on Harvard. Presidents Bok and Horner will welcome you to the company of not-yet-educated men and women. Dean Rosovsky will bring his dry and sometimes stinging wit along to give an address. (His address, by the way, is University Hall...
...been a longstanding tradition at Harvard to mock our New Hampshire Ivy neighbors who attend Dartmouth. This does not require an abundance of wit, of course, since Hanover residents tend to be eminently laughable...