Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hippies earlier this winter to the ideal of a truly free press. In all probability, the officials would have taken a lot more time to wise up if hippies had dominated yesterday's sell-in. In short, it is clear that local law enforcement officials, even in their belated wisdom, adhere to a shamefully inequitable policy of legal discrimination...
That it did not was no tribute to Washington's wisdom. What the piracy of Pueblo did rehearse for the nation -and its adversaries-was a dismaying litany of military procedures and political assumptions that proved in the crunch to be inadequate, unimaginative and unbelievably overconfident. It will probably take years to dissect and document all the slippages and oversights that have led the U.S. to the brink of a second front in Asia. It is already apparent that this was a casus belli that need never have arisen...
While the thoughts of Red China's leader are available to American read ers in the little red booklet Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung, they have no such access to the accumulated wisdom of Lyndon Johnson. To fill this obvious gap-and turn a profit in the process-Journalists Jack Shepherd, 30, and Christopher Wren, 31, set out to anthologize Quotations from Chairman L.B.J...
...major drive against guerrilla strongholds in the Sierra de las Minas in north eastern Guatemala. To aid in the drive, the army also hired and armed local bands of "civilian collaborators" licensed to kill peasants whom they considered guerrillas or "potential" guerrillas. There were those who doubted the wisdom of encouraging such measures in violence-prone Guatemala, but Webber was not among them. "That's the way this country is," he said. "The Communists are using everything they have, including terror. And it must...
Brodie says, with all the casual arrogance of an army sergeant addressing fresh recruits. It is hothouse precocity and not learning or wisdom that she instills. Instead of history, she maunders on about her World War I lover who died in Flanders Field the day before the Armistice. Instead of art, she lapses into erotic reveries about the sensual gratifications of Italian holidays...