Word: wittedness
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"We are certainly not a nation of nitwits," said the nimble-witted Duke of Edinburgh to lunching manufacturers in London. "In fact, wits are our greatest single asset, and one which we can still rely upon." Britain's future is bright, he was confident, if the nation properly exploits...
Like many of his countrymen, the sere old peasant Pierre Talabard nursed a deep and lifelong distrust of all that exists beyond the confines of his 37-acre farm in the Allier, 200 miles south of Paris. He worked the rich soil on which he was born 63 years ago...
Kano is a city that flourished in the days of Scheherazade; its sturdy peasantry, like 11 million other Northern Moslems, loftily disdain the nimbler-witted Ibos and Yorubas who dominate Southern Nigeria. When Emir Abdullah's decision was announced, Haussa and Fulani alike broke away from their mosque and...
At home in York Cottage, a villa on the royal estate at Sandringham, George and his Mary lived a life of unruffled domestic felicity that became a national legend.. Five of their six royal children were born at "dear old Sandringham," and during his wife's confinements, the...
Partner in Crime. Under the law, Derek Bentley, as a partner in a crime which culminated in murder, was as guilty as the one who pulled the trigger. Thus instructed by the trial judge, a jury in Old Bailey found both Craig and Bentley guilty of murder. Craig was only...