Word: wittedness
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Wiry, sharp-witted Economic Director Jimmy Byrnes this week served blunt notice that even if he has to void laws he is going to attack the worst aspect of the price control snarl, namely that while luxury goods prices (see p. 83) are being held down food prices are soaring...
Two titans of touch will meet this afternoon when an undefeated and united CRIMSON squad gurgles back at the challenging members of the "Princetonian," crusading daily from New Jersey. An unsullied, pure, clean, perfect record is at stake for the knife-witted hooligans of Plympton Street, and a mighty machine...
> So astonishingly dim-witted are the 170,000 Dutch workmen drafted into German factories that Nazi officials consider them "considerably worse" than any other imported workers.
Lord MacMillan was dull. Sir John Reith was dour. Alfred Duff Cooper was social. Then into the British Ministry of Information came red-haired Brendan Bracken, young (41), quick-witted protege of Winston Churchill.
In that house is the Chinese Military Mission sent by Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek to help the U.S. plan and coordinate campaigns in the Far East. Head of the mission is General Hsiung Shih-hui, a quick-witted, rugged, battlewise soldier. One of its members is Peter Chuh, the Gissimo...