Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...readers, erupted in editorial anger. To the Supreme Court Building in Washington came hundreds of letters and telegrams agreeing with the sentiments of Los Angeles Municipal Judge Ida May Adams, who concluded her usual court-opening prayer with a new plea: "God bless the Supreme Court and in Your wisdom let it be shown the error of its ways...
...except his color for rejecting Meredith. They pointed, for example, to the lack of accreditation of the school from which Meredith is transferring-their own Jackson State College. U.S. District Judge Sidney Mize duly ruled that Meredith had been turned down on nonracial grounds. But Circuit Judge John Minor Wisdom called the Ole Miss burlesque "a carefully calculated campaign of delay, harassment and masterly inactivity." He ordered Judge Mize to issue an injunction forcing Meredith's admission. If Meredith enters Ole Miss next fall as planned, Alabama and South Carolina will be the only states with no integration...
...Budget Director during the final three years of the Eisenhower Administration, Stans, 54, is billed by the syndicate as a sort of fiscal triple-threat man-an expert in both business and Government who can distill his wisdom into lucid monologues. Last weekend's column was a dark appraisal of personal bankruptcies and of the cloudy economic climate they foretell, but Stans usually attacks more general themes. A sampling...
...talk at the summer school invocation, Demos drew on his long experience in teaching undergraduates--for nearly half a century he has used the Socratic method of questioning to help students discover for themselves the perspective and wisdom which are the goals of the learning process...
...first recorded heretic, a converted Jew named Simon Magus, tried to convince St. Peter that Christ's message could be welded to the wisdom of the Greeks...