Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...authorities cannot prove their case against the Apalachin group on the basis of its real crimes, it is better to let nineteen guilty men go free than to imprison one innocent man. The Court of Appeals has shown both wisdom and courage in restating the principle that the accused is presumed innocent until proven guilty. The law protects the criminal as well as the citizen--and it must continue to do so, even if some clever gangsters must go free in the process...
...provisional liberty" to ex-Paratrooper Pierre Lagaillarde, the flamboyant Deputy who dominated the Algiers barricades. "It's a slap in De Gaulle's face," crowed one ultra. "Even the judges he chose saw the light." And in the top echelons of the government, doubts as to the wisdom or workability of the new Algerian program were so strong that half a dozen Cabinet members, including Finance Minister Wilfrid Baumgartner and Interior Minister Pierre Chatenet, were rumored to be on their...
Premenstrual and menstrual lethargy relaxes judgment and slows reaction time, said Dr. Dalton. "These findings," she concluded, "cause one to consider the wisdom of administering tranquilizers for premenstrual tension, which may well increase accident-proneness at the most dangerous time of the menstrual cycle...
Koestler has no patience with the self-deprecating habit of contrasting a contemplative, spiritual East with a crass, materialistic West. The difference, he says, is not between spirituality and materialism but between Western philosophy-love of wisdom-and Eastern "philousia" (from the Greek word ousia, meaning essential Being), which "prefers intuition to reason, symbols to concepts, self-realization through the annihilation of the ego to self-realization through the unfolding of individuality...
...never completed a pass or made a yard on the ground. For not only has Baker wondered if Oregon State is the proper place for him-despite his status there as a demigod that would make any other player dizzy with glory-but he harbors dark doubts about the wisdom of even playing the game of football in the first place...