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Word: wits (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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With his signature knickers and quick wit, the "Squire" played everyone from Harry Vardon to Bobby Jones to Nicklaus...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Golf Legend Sarazen Dies at 97 | 5/14/1999 | See Source »

Rushdie's affable personality and rapier wit had the audience breaking up with laughter throughout the evening...

Author: By Daniel G. Habib, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Salman Rushdie Reads, Jokes for Square Audience | 5/12/1999 | See Source »

...recounting his trip to the Middle East and calling it a play, Via Dolorosa. Another well-received import from Britain, The Weir, is a 90-minute chamber piece in which the denizens of a bar in Ireland trade ghost stories. This year's Pulitzer Prize for drama went to Wit, an affecting play about a woman dying of cancer, but essentially an expanded monologue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Broadway, Straight Up | 5/10/1999 | See Source »

Discover Brokerage Wit Capital ETrade Schwab Fidelity W.R. Hambrecht...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Your Money: May 10, 1999 | 5/10/1999 | See Source »

...toes the whole way. As I approach the thankfully unoccupied door, I try to dredge up what little knowledge of hip-hop culture I have. It's Nothing but a G-Thang. G-Funk--step to this, I dare you. Wu-Tang Clan ain't nuthin to fuck wit'. Inter- galacticplanetary-intergalactic... How does the rest go? I tuck my Abercrombie T-shirt into my Gap denim shorts and walk through the door...

Author: By Richard D. Ma, | Title: This Ol' Dirty Bastard: How I Came to Terms with My Hip-Hop Roots | 5/6/1999 | See Source »

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