Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...might be having some second thoughts. In a speech to the Reserve Officers Association, Vinson warned against the trend of consolidation that McNamara had set in motion in the Pentagon. Said Vinson: "The three military departments, with their department secretaries and their separate services, assure us of collective wisdom. They protect us against the adoption of a one-sided defense concept, which might well be based on a then-prevailing parochial attitude...
...turn to him as men turn instinctively to a light in darkness. He is a holy idiot, a saint who is wanted by the police. He looks like a lamb, he looks like a dragon. Unhuman understanding blazes in his eyes-or is it merely the firelight reflected? Prophetic wisdom flames from his mouth-or is he simply playing the oracle? "Lies are not always evil, nor is the truth always good . . . Blessed are those who believe in something, even if it is nothing . . . You shouldn't forget what you love. The things you love are the things...
...Neill said he strongly supports a House bill giving federal aid for college building construction. Although he has "curious doubts" about the wisdom of granting federal scholarships, he said he would vote for an education bill which included scholarships if it were recommended by the Senate-House conference committee...
...which Mr. Bator cites to demonstrate irresponsibility is the students' proposal that the United States withdraw those advance missile bases "whose vulnerability makes them useless except for the purpose of a first strike against the Soviet Union." There is no space here to review the long debate over the wisdom or lack of wisdom in seeking to deter non-nuclear ventures by a threat of a nuclear first strike. It may be said that the administration has been proceeding as rapidly as possible away from reliance upon vulnerable first-strike weapons and that practical and policy reasons have convinced many...
...back in the space race with a vengeance, and gave the morale of the U.S. and the entire free world a huge and badly needed boost. Contrasted with earlier Russian shots, it was a great victory for the open society that produced Glenn?and proved the wisdom, in terms that Wilson might have used, of "open shots openly viewed...