Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Congressmen and other dissenters like Herbert Hoover, Senator Green's report gave many other figures to chew on. Some (like Axis and Allied division totals) were stated without documentation. Similarly he left no room for Congress to discuss the specific wisdom of the plan of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The Chiefs had made their plans with full knowledge of the world situation and after a full study (said Senator Green) of the United Nations' shipping potential, the U.S.'s capacity for worrying by on a slimmer civilian economy...
...audience shouted unrestrainedly when she said: "From five and a half years of experience we in China are convinced that it is the better part of wisdom not to accept failure ignominiously, but to risk it gloriously...
Idealistic Greeks thought otherwise. To them, human reason, wisdom, was the highest peak that man could reach. But, says Dr. Niebuhr, this belief did not help them to fulfill themselves in the everyday things of life...
...little which might obstruct his capacity for love. At the telegraph office where he works, the manager is incapable of disliking anything, and the operator, Grogan, soaks away in whiskey the sadness of the messages he gives & takes. Homer's history teacher talks to him with a democratic wisdom and kindness which, if it were true of teaching in general, would long ago have left nations incapable of war. On the job, to be sure, Homer has to carry messages of death in war to mothers in the town, and in these more complicated scenes Saroyan is deeply affecting...
...Office of Price Administration, he fought hard against sprung rationing-rationing of a single commodity announced overnight without suitable preparation of the public. Last week, as buyers smarting under the sudden shoe rationing order rushed to buy clothes for fear of an unexpected new order by the Government, the wisdom of Leon Henderson's position became apparent...