Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...phrase became "a legal term of art" that clearly barred Boutilier as "a homosexual long before leaving Canada," and authorized his deportation even if he had lived "a life of impeccable morality" in the U.S. Ruled Kaufman: "It is not our function to sit in judgment on Congress' wisdom in enacting the law." In dissent, Judge Leonard P. Moore called "psychopathic personality" an unconstitutionally vague term that immigration officials blindly applied to Boutilier without even giving him a medical examination...
Medical researchers have tried for years to train laboratory animals to smoke. And as if in testament to the animals' innate wisdom, the training always failed. It did, that is, until Dr. Oscar Auerbach, a pathologist at the East Orange, N.J., Veterans Administration Hospital, finally found a way to force the habit. In relentless pursuit of a sure link between lung damage and smoking, Dr. Auerbach turned on man's best friend, specifically the trusting little beagle...
...churches new role, he observed, will be to show the goodness and wisdom...
...legged man? Those urging a lottery recognize that you can't apply it to the disqualified. You return to a selective service system." But a lottery's "gravest weakness," Hershey contended, is "the substitution of chance for judgment in an area where we need much more wisdom than we have-the proper utilization of our manpower...
...acre hilltop farm near New Hamp shire's White Mountains, carrying bird seed in his pockets, Hocking customari ly listed his occupation on income tax forms as "writer-farmer." Unfashionably, he dealt with the grand intellec tual themes that have traditionally pre occupied those who love wisdom: God, the nature of man, the meaning of life. Indeed, when he died last week at 92, in the rude stone house he had built largely with his own hands, one learned American philosopher said, not unkind ly, that Hocking had always thought "more with his heart than his head...