Word: wittedness
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Sir: He was quick to criticize, from the safety of the Senate, the tactics of our generals at Hamburger Hill. At that time, he knew everything about saving lives. Unfortunately, he wasn't that quick-witted on the night of the accident. If he had any real greatness about...
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
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...
"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...
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...