Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...because he is tough, salty and skillful. He has spent 46 of his 59 years in the service of the sea. Navy men set much stock by the fact that he was so long a destroyer man. To ride those little ponies of the sea takes strength, wisdom and the ability to make quick decisions. A.B.C. commanded the Scorpion for seven years, and gave her sting. Once in the Aegean he took her right into the mouth of an enemy harbor with bridge defenses rigged, the upper deck clear of men, and seamen with rifles manning the bridge loopholes...
...ratification ceremonies, Argentina's Foreign Minister Ruiz Guinazu pointed up the clash between Hispanidad and Pan Americanism, lectured a picked audience of Spanish bigwigs and Argentines on the wisdom of President Castillo's neutrality policy, the virtues of Hispanidad...
Dumfounded when he saw a whole garden of roses, he wept bitterly. But a fox taught him wisdom and the nature of love, formulating a Saint-Exupery belief: "Tame me," the fox begged. "To you, I am nothing more than a fox like a hundred thousand other foxes. But if you tame me, then we shall need each other. To me, you will be unique in all the world. To you, I shall be unique in all the world. . . . You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed. You are responsible for your rose." The little prince returned...
Four British cameramen were killed in the filming of "Desert Victory" and the movie is a tribute to their selfless daring as well as to the sweated courage of the Allied force and the strategic wisdom of its leadership. The camera is not on the fringe of the ground attack; it dashes into the midst of it. It is not high above the air attack; it swoops down with it. The commentator's job becomes unimportant because the action rarely needs to be explained; it can be seen close...
...casting a narrow but bright beam of light on the communication carried on between government and people. Without reflecting at all, necessarily, on the wisdom of the long-range policies carried out by such means, they are assisting what William Graham Sumner long ago grimly felt to be the one hope of democracy-that the men who profess it should know how it works. And in a democracy, under a two-party system, whatever political adroitness there may be in the release of news and information, it is a game at which two or more can play. Indeed...