Word: witnessed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...return? Nehru & Co. expressed great pleasure at the trade pact's preamble, to wit: respect for each other's "territorial integrity" and "noninterference" in each other's domestic affairs. Nehru expected that Red China would thereby relax its border pressure, and Indians happily believe him. "Another step to consolidate our friendship with China," said the Indian Express. "A triumph of diplomacy," glowed the Hindustan Times...
Sheldon Glueck, Roscoe Pound Professor of Law, who worked with Hooton on studies of delinquency, praised him: "Professor Hooton's untimely death comes as a great shock to all who knew him as a man of profound and fearless scholarship and delightful and original wit. Harvard and the world of anthropology have suffered a great loss...
...returned to face more of Jenkins' hammering questions. Said the veteran Tennessee trial lawyer: "One other serious charge has been made against you, and that is, from time to time you offered up a bigger bait even than David Schine to this committee to let you alone, to wit, the Air Force or the Navy, it being alleged that you tried to divert this committee from the Army to the Air Force or the Navy. What do you say about that charge...
...there is one parodist who seldom needs to wield this club over a self-anesthetized audience. Ira Wallach, who proved his wit in his "Hopalong Freud" series, has a new book, called "Gutenberg's Folly...
...Surrey) resembles another prepossessing Commonwealth novelist, Guiana's Edgar Mittelholzer (TIME. Jan. 11), in the audacity with which she flirts with fantastic characters and odd situations. But Author Murray's chief triumph is as a specialist in African sickness. Her bedside manner is worthy of Chekhov in wit and diagnostic sharpness; in spirit and human sympathy it never departs from the grand old female tradition of the South African novel...