Word: witnessed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Commented the reviewer:" "It would seem that the lean years have arrived in purlieus of Mount Auburn and Plympton Streets, for seldom have we previously been favored with such a monumental display of gratuitous imbecility, such wholesome vulgarity of the common or garden variety, or such lamentable paucity of wit and artistry as is represented by this issue...
...That particular story in the May 24 issue on the Adams testimony was a masterpiece of wit on a masterpiece of silliness. As far as I'm concerned, the Government should stop squandering money on the hearings, and turn them over to some soap manufacturer who could call the show "McCarthy Faces Life...
...Native Wit. It was only the first blow of the week for Bidault. Bidault had sworn that if the Laniel government fell, he would remain at Geneva as representative of a caretaker government even if he had "to go back to France every two or three days and stump the country" for his policy. The actual vote (see below), with its majority of two, was almost...
When he could, Bidault stood off the cocky Communists with the only weapon left to him-native wit. When Tep Phan, Foreign Minister of Cambodia, denounced the Viet Minh invasion of his country and produced a telegram reporting the murder of three Cambodians by Viet Minh rebels, Molotov was scathing. "We have heard about this telegram, but we haven't seen it," he declared scornfully. The Cambodian minister waved the telegram aloft. "Now we have seen it, but we still haven't read it," snapped Molotov, to the laughter of the Communist delegations...
...Britain, the very failure of U.S. plans for "united action" brought a sense of relief. The Times of London was notably pleased, and seemed to have made a discovery for itself, to wit, that the Americans are not wicked warmongers, after...