Word: prudently
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bethlehem, Pa.," home of Lehigh University. Lehigh indeed! During the time I was a member of the Oklahoma Aggie wrestling team we never once succeeded in scheduling the "hotbed of wrestling" schools, Lehigh and Penn State, try as we would. My understanding is they still are being prudent about whom they wrestle. Certainly Lehigh is to be congratulated on having produced a national champion ["Ike" Eichelberger],"but this is an every-year occurrence at Oklahoma...
...that mutual affection is more fundamental than things such as birth, property, etc. Are love affairs and marriages two different things? Many answers, specially those of men, were affirmative. Does this mean a decline in the morals of the younger generation? On the contrary, they are very serious and prudent about getting married. Women, however, may be blamed for being too fanciful...
...that the U.S. foreign-policy situation "is more perilous than it has been since Korea." Said he: "Certainly we must have learned by now that peace and security cannot be had for the asking, or by slogans and tough talk, or by blowing alternately hot and cold, rash and prudent." Added Tennessee's Senator Estes Kefauver: "In the conduct of our foreign policy, the Eisenhower Administration has in a large measure been a failure." Cried New York Governor Averell Harriman: "By the time the Republicans took office in 1953 they were utterly incapable of carrying on a coherent...
...particles would continue to settle down on the earth for years after an explosion, that they might enter the food supply and kill those who ate the food. He believes this danger has been inaccurately minimized in official public statements. He believes that for the U.S. there was no prudent alternative to the construction of the present terrible weapons. Yet if the peoples of the world, including those of the U.S., understood how terrible these weapons are, their fear would generate a new approach to peace...
...dreadful seriousness. Ann, a devout church member, had no intention of marrying an unconverted man. She talked with him for hours about the Bible, pleaded with him to accept the faith. Joe lashed around in his Bible late into the nights, reading time and again Proverbs 27:12: "A prudent man foreseeth the evil, and hideth himself; but the simple pass on, and are punished." After a year of inner turmoil, Joe slipped away one weekday and drove to the home of a Church of Christ minister in Carthage. "Preacher," said he, "I want you to baptize me." The ceremony...