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Word: wilier (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Janowitz, one of the few scholars who have given intensive thought to the re-entry problem, believes: "The experience of the military will integrate them into the larger society. They will be more likely to enter the mainstream of political American life." Military service, after all, makes a man wilier, not angrier, and the Negro vet will probably be more attracted to politics than demonstration or riot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Armed Forces: Democracy in the Foxhole | 5/26/1967 | See Source »

Maddox, 51, has proved a wilier bird than even his most knowing opponents anticipated. He has promised to appoint Negroes to state boards and -while insisting that "these colored people won't be involved in our social life"-says that as Governor he would "treat all minority groups fairly." Textile Millionaire Callaway is a segregationist himself, though of a subtler hue. He claims that a Maddox victory would be a blow to the state "from which it may never recover," pleaded before a Rotary Club meeting in the tobacco town of Douglas last month: "Which one is going...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Georgia: Different Bird | 11/4/1966 | See Source »

...Chief of Staff also represents a breed that is now rare in the Pentagon-the battlefield hero. From infantry combat in the thick of two Asian wars, handsome "Johnny" Johnson came away with a dazzle of decorations and the single-minded conviction that the American soldier must be hardier, wilier and brainier than ever before if he is to win the kind of war that the U.S. faces in Asia today. "Johnson's spirit of intellect and leadership," says the 1st Air-Cavalry's Brigadier General Richard Knowles, "is felt by every private in Viet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Armed Forces: Renaissance in the Ranks | 12/10/1965 | See Source »

STAND STILL LIKE THE HUMMINGBIRD (194 pp.)-Henry Wilier-New Directions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Dry Pornographer | 6/29/1962 | See Source »

...buttons, next they arrested a fan for fraternizing with foreigners ("We will be lucky if we see him again," mused a bystander), and finally they tried to bar Benny's ig-year-old daughter Rachel from going backstage, thinking she was one of the local cats. Said Good-Wilier Good man: "It shows a terrible weakness on their part, doesn't it?" Back from an eleven-day Far Eastern swing, Thomas J. Deegan Jr., 51, chair man of the $225 million New York World's Fair of 1964-65, had reason to gloat. Private groups in Britain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jun. 15, 1962 | 6/15/1962 | See Source »

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