Word: witness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...insolence without a due and dispassionate revenge. He is a lonely man and his pride is that you will treat him as a proud man or be very sorry you ever saw him. He talks as the man of his age talks--that is, with rude wit, a lively sense of the grotesque, a disgust for sham, and a contempt for pettiness...
That may be because the word 'president' has been attached to Brian's name a number of times already. To wit: Brian was national president of the 900-chapter Junior Classical League as a senior in high school, class president of his Florida public high school in his junior year, governor of Boy's State, Florida state president of the national honors society, college resident of the Junior Classical League, and chairman of the Harvard-Radcliffe Undergraduate Council. Brian's Government Department thesis was on presidential disability and succession...
...Christian uprising that lasted 14 years and resulted in some 20 million deaths. Based on a reputation for valor, acquired by stumbling into dangerous places at well-publicized times, the intrepid Flashman becomes Britain's semiofficial envoy to the revolutionaries. His escapades, both military and carnal, bring verve and wit to a carefully footnoted tale. Young Tom Brown was certainly more the gentleman, but he could not possibly have grown up to be so much...
...Cuomo style is a mixture of warmth and wit. He is simpatico. As a reporter embarks on a question, Cuomo yells out, "I deny it! I deny it!" He describes something that irks him as "just a walnut in the batter of eternity." In the midst of a conversation Cuomo is having with an elderly woman from Queens, his press secretary, Martin Steadman, sneezes while she is talking. "That's a Yiddish sign," she says, "that the person talking is telling the truth." Cuomo turns to Steadman: "Next time, see if you can sneeze while I'm talking...
About 800 students of both races from the University of the Wit-watersrand in Johannesburg staged an outdoor protest yesterday, and 13 arrests were reported. Protesters threw stones at two police cars and several private cars. Witnesses said students rushed at a group of police, shouting slogans against the white Afrikaners who control the ruling National Party...