Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Imperfect Wisdom. For five hours, with the White House turning on the heat and helping to direct the strategy, Minnesota's civil-righteous young Hubert Humphrey, Tennessee's Estes Kefauver, New York's Herbert Lehman and North Carolina's lame duck Frank Graham took turns lecturing against the bill. Their arguments were a direct paraphrase of Harry Truman's message...
Illinois' big, shaggy Paul Douglas (who, like Minnesota's Humphrey, had voted for the bill in the first place) joined the filibuster. Obviously torn by the issues at stake, Douglas blurted: "In such imperfect wisdom as I have-and I say this with no sense of self-righteousness-I will vote to uphold the President's veto," and slumped into his chair with a groan...
These late eclipses in the sun and moon portend no good to us: though the wisdom of nature can reason it thus and thus, yet nature finds itself scourged by the sequent effects: love cools, friendship falls off, brothers divide; in cities, mutinies; in countries, discord; in palaces, treason; and the bond cracked 'twixt sun and father. King Ledr, Act 1, scene...
Having got wisdom off his chest, Thompson got down to business. He was there to sell 306 purebred Hereford cattle from the nearby Switzer & Field ranch. Quickly he sold nine animals for a total of $39,925, topped the whole lot with a whopping $46,000 for one prize bull, Baca OJR Royal I. In two arm-flailing days filled with Thompson's rolling oratory, he and four assistants sold the entire Switzer & Field herd...
...Asia. China specialists in official posts echoed the line. "The British government sees no papal infallibility about MacArthur," snapped one British diplomat. Peevishly he denounced the general's recent visit to Formosa as "flatfooted diplomacy." The outcry muffled the quieter misgivings, mostly among Conservatives, about the wisdom of the government's China policy...