Word: wittedness
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Read Them & Laugh. The letter read: "Don't you think it is about time you gave a sermon to your flock about the disgraceful scandal mongering and backbiting by members of your church, especially your warden's wife. She has not a good word for anybody who does...
"And I, being slow-witted, reached in my pocket and handed him one," said Poindexter. Prosser then pocketed the bill, "sat back, looked smug, and smiled," and the whole class burst into laughter.
Parcels & Patience. This attitude changed later. The first time Renault was picked up, with his pockets bulging with dispatches, he talked so fast and furiously that his slow-witted examiner gave up and let him go without even searching him. After his network had been sending out messages for several...
The U.S. delegate, Harvard's sharp-witted Prof. Zechariah H. Chafee Jr., a member of the Commission on Freedom of the Press and author of a two-volume study of the press, waited 40 minutes for Lomakin to talk himself out. Then Chafee slyly quoted from a State Department...
Before U.N., at many an inter-American conference and in dozens of crises, the quick-witted Brazilian had engineered the compromises that held the hemisphere together. He always knew how to break an impasse with a joke and he could drop a tear at the twist of a metaphor.