Word: witting
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...Thatcher; in London. A retired millionaire businessman, Thatcher often described himself as the most "shadowy husband of all times." He walked a step behind his wife of 52 years throughout her 11 years in office, calling himself her male consort. Thatcher, known for his right-wing views and blunt wit, was a golf addict who attributed his slim physique to "drink and cigarettes." Asked who wore the pants in the Thatcher home, he replied: "I do. And I wash and iron them...
There is very little here that is intellectually or politically adventurous, but that doesn't mean Hillary Clinton isn't a daredevil in her own way. Occasionally she will risk a moment of self-deprecating candor, leavened by dry wit. "I was not the same person who had worn the violet blue gown in 1993," she writes of the second Inauguration. "Nor could I fit into it after four years of White House fare. And I had grown not only older but blonder." When a paparazzo catches her and Bill slow-dancing in their bathing suits on a tropical beach...
...slack economy, you would think they would redouble their attention to the basics--and the best chains and local managers are doing just that. But industry experts share my amazement that so many stores don't execute well what ought to be the obvious rules of their business. To wit...
...Alper wrote controversial columns that some people may remember years from now—about the football team’s placekickers and the band, respectively. I’ll forget the columns in six months. I’ll remember the way Dan’s wit oscillated between the maddening and the endearing, and the time I trudged out to a rainy Harvard Stadium to watch him face much-maligned Harvard kicker Anders Blewett in a ludicrous placekicking contest. I’ll remember Eli kicking it Alper-style at a party in New Jersey...
...piece of work, our Liam. As played by a nonactor named Martin Compston, he's not exactly handsome, but there's something about his spirit--wit and energy and an often comical inventiveness. Given a break or two, he could have become, you imagine, one of those rough-hewn entrepreneurs whose rags-to-riches stories so enliven capitalism's history...