Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Standing up and saying "No!" to Khrushchev has done more for American prestige in this part of the world than 20 American spacemen landing on the moon. Turks-"fiercely anti-Russian"-have complete confidence in the wisdom of America's attitude toward Khrushchev and Castro...
There were moments last week when the Kremlin seemed to have less trouble coexisting with the U.S. than with the Communist bloc (or blocs). While the world was positively smothered in peace talk from Moscow about how Nikita Khrushchev's wisdom had prevented a war between the U.S. and Russia, there were audible rumblings of dissension in the Communist realm...
...acceptance (albeit unconsciously) of this force for which he expends his energies to the limit of his nature. This drive is common to an artist's creativity and work and a stateman's wickedness alike, to both Beethoven and Napoleon; it features an enormous confidence and a wisdom far beyond common...
...soon running a cram school for getting enlisted men into West Point, did so well that in 1939 the Point yanked him out of the infantry to teach history. He dutifully earned a Columbia master's degree in 1942 while itching to go to war. In its wisdom, the Army put him in G-2 with the prickly job of organizing U.S. historians to tell the big story...
...have shown the wisdom of your calling in declining a score of college presidencies,'' said the president of Williams College last June as he awarded an honorary doctor of letters. It was a tribute, at once wry and heartfelt, that could go to only one man in the U.S.: William C. DeVane. 64, who has announced that he will retire next June after a quarter-century as dean of Yale College...