Wit consists chiefly in joining things by distant and fanciful relations, which surprise us because they are unexpected. Wit is a propriety of thoughts and words; or in other terms, thoughts and words elegantly adapted to the subject. 3. The faculty of associating ideas in a new and unexpected manner. 4. A man of genius; as, the age of Addison abounded with wits.
a primary cause of the economic decline that began in the 1970s was. a decline in worker productivity. the severe inflation of the 1970's was largely caused by. lyndon johnson's effort to maintain the vietnam war and the great society programs without raising taxes. president nixon's vietnamization policy provided that. the united states would gradually withdraw ground troops while supporting the south vietnamese war effort.
Johnson's Foreign Policy. 1  Privately, Johnson agonized over the consequences of the U.S. escalation in Vietnam and raged at the incompetence of the succession of military juntas that tried to govern that country and carry on a war against Viet Cong guerrillas and North Vietnamese regulars. Publicly, he was determined not to lose the war. As a result, in 1968 there were 500,000 American troops in South Vietnam and no end in sight to the conflict. After an extensive re-examination, President Johnson decided to disengage from a struggle lacking U.S. domestic support.