Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...BLAST OF WAR 1939-1945, by Harold Macmillan. Wartime England's darkest and finest hours are remembered with wisdom and clarity in the second volume of the former Prime Minister's autobiography...
Massive Putdown. Opposition to established thought?or to "conventional wisdom," as he derisively calls it?is hardly a new role for Harvard's Warburg Professor of Economics. TV crews wait so often outside his home in Cambridge, Mass., to catch him for a pungent comment on events of the day that Galbraith, jokes one admirer, now trails only Lexington and the Concord Bridge as a major Massachusetts
...BLAST OF WAR 1939-1945, by Harold Macmillan. Wartime England's darkest and finest hours are remembered with wisdom and clarity in the second volume of the former Prime Minister's autobiography...
...rainbow display of his kaleidoscopic personality, Johnson was by turns wryly humorous, cautious, defensive, patriotic and pugnacious. "I don't want any damned Dienbienphu," he warned the Joint Chiefs of Staff during a White House discussion of Khe Sanh, cross-examining them at great length about the wisdom of defending the isolated outpost. In an extraordinary gesture, apparently designed to alert everyone to the gravity of the situation, Johnson then made each Chief sign a paper stating that he believed Khe Sanh could be defended...
...Israeli flag when disaster struck without warning or explanation. Hardly had search-and-rescue operations been mounted for the Dakar when next day the Minerve suffered a similar fate during a training exercise. The 850-ton French submarine, commissioned in 1964 and named after the Roman goddess of wisdom, left no more clues to what happened than the Dakar. Ruling out possible undersea disturbances radiating from an earthquake in Sicily about the same time, Israeli and French naval officials deduced that the two submarines experienced some major mechanical or electrical failure while submerged...