Word: wits
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Alysse" fans need not mourn the loss of Moreno's brand of pointed wit. Several weeks ago, the writer got a call from "a national magazine," to which she may contribute a similarly-styled column...
Challenge means loss. (A "physically challenged" person is one who used to be called "disabled" or "handicapped" -- to wit, one who has been dealt a bad blow by circumstance. To give him this more friendly sounding title is an attempt to affirm possibility on his behalf -- in other words, to be in denial...
...wit, he's only a junior--perhaps he's not yet worthy of these recognitions in the collegiate hockey world...
After I switched from news to sports my sophomore year, I learned pretty quickly that honesty and good wit may win you the respect of other journalists, but they bring you the ire of just about everyone else. And at a school with such a tightly knit (some would say incestuous) athletic program, that's a lot of enemies who know you by name and nothing else...
...time of great music, classic music -- definitive American popular music -- but one notable writer didn't think so. Ring Lardner, the humorist of humble wonders and the ironist of old-time virtues, was driven to rages of wit over the suggestive excesses of Tin Pan Alley and the Broadway stage. Cole Porter's gymnastics in verse drove Lardner to postulate any number of revisions that reflected his disgust without diminishing his vitriol ("Night and day, under the bark of me/ There's an Oh, such a mob of microbes making a park of me"). Temperance of any kind...