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Word: wittedness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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The score turns out to be a crazy scheme to steal a U.S. armaments shipment for a freebooting Mexican general named Mapache, a slow-witted executioner fighting a losing battle against

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Movies: Man and Myth | 6/20/1969 | See Source »

It happened that Frederick thought highly of Billy. He took him under his shield in far-away Chicago and taught him everything a princeling should know - which was a great deal - about running Armour. He saw to it that Billy, who was handsome and quick-witted, traveled and developed regal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Takeovers: The Prince, the General And the Greyhound | 5/9/1969 | See Source »

"What kind of tale can possibly evolve from such a gallimaufry of trivia? A dreamer on a park bench, a dim-witted bird fancier, a dead cat, an eight-year-old boy, a picture dealer, a handful of pigeons and an insurance agent-hardly the cast of War and Peace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Dreams of Disorder | 2/7/1969 | See Source »

In this story-which some Dickens readers consider his greatest-an impoverished old woman, Betty Higden, talks to some callers about having given a home to a poor, gangling, half-witted boy who is known only as "Sloppy." She says that Sloppy is "a beautiful reader of a newspaper. He...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 6, 1968 | 12/6/1968 | See Source »

In reminiscences published in Russia last year, Abel not only makes light of this lapse but uses it to score a point for his team, joining Spies Kim Philby and Gordon Lonsdale in the international intelligence game of trying to make the rival service look as dim-witted as possible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Russia: Advice to Young Spies | 11/29/1968 | See Source »

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