Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...United States, united as never before, has drawn the sword for freedom and cast away the scabbard." In 1943, after the victory in North Africa, he had exulted: "One continent redeemed." In 1952, under the clouds of another gathering storm, he spoke with all the avuncular wisdom he had gained as a pilot of the Anglo-American alliance...
...Liberty. Last September De Lattre went to Washington to plead for more U.S. aid to the French in Indo-China. "We are fighting," he said, "on a world battlefield for liberty . . . for peace." Few Americans took note of the wisdom behind those words. Many, on the other hand, noted the black band on the sleeve of the general's always impeccable uniform. It represented his only son, Bernard, killed in action in Indo-China just 15 weeks before. Close friends felt that General De Lattre never fully recovered from the shock of that loss, but to one he wrote...
Dartmouth, on the other hand, will play four lettermen and one sophomore--6'8" Paul Wisdom at center. Wisdom is expected to give some scoring punch to the Indians, who were usually lacking in that capacity last year--they finished last in the league, one notch below the Crimson...
...Esther.* "The World's Greatest Cinderella Story, Ripe with the Wisdom of Ages, Yet Trembling with Topicality; Throbbing with Tempestuous Passion, Yet deeply Religious and Reverent . . . Sensational drama direct from the bestselling book of all time . . . Real wine was drunk in the screening of the royal feast...
...Artist Kelly has the idea that, by setting everyday events against a simple background, like figures against a sheet, he can make the human elements in them stand out more clearly. Sometimes he can, and with true invention. Pogo novices should be warned, however, that 182 pages of wit & wisdom from a small rodent can be almighty surfeiting. For best effect, this sort of thing should be taken, as is customary with War and Peace, a bit at a time...