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Word: wisdoms (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Perhaps out of the blood-soaked jungles of Southeast Asia will come the humility and the national wisdom that will lead us into the light of a new day," he said...

Author: By David N. Hollander and Carol R. Sternhell, S | Title: Boston: 100,000 Rally | 10/16/1969 | See Source »

...illustrate some aspect of what I am trying to say by discussing our attitude toward drugs. It seems to me that in vigorously condemning in public statements those who use drugs civil authorities and university officials have poisoned the air too much. I do not question at all the wisdom of condemning the use of drugs in private session with a student, or in group discussion, but it is essential that the cluster of ideas at Harvard about drugs contain the idea that when any student needs care and help he may receive it here without fearing that a Dean...

Author: By Archie C. Epps, | Title: The Sum and The Parts | 10/6/1969 | See Source »

...come and tell the agency how to sell a particular beer. When the big day arrived, this motivational research guy came before the board and said just three words: "Beer is cock." He then collected his stash and went home-and the agency, after pondering these words of wisdom, came up with a campaign about the beer "with the five-minute head...

Author: By Frank Rich, | Title: Downey, Truth and Soul | 10/3/1969 | See Source »

Religion 1. The Protestant Spirit. Sun. at 10. Dr. N. M. Pusey, A guide to prudence, justice, fortitude, temperance, piety, wisdom, and genteel behavior...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond Shopping Around | 9/22/1969 | See Source »

...always be areas of life that humanity considers too private, or too close to feelings of guilt, to speak about directly. Like stammers or tears, euphemisms will be created whenever men doubt, or fear, or do not know. The instinct is not wholly unhealthy; there is a measure of wisdom in the familiar saying that a man who calls a spade a spade is fit only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: THE EUPHEMISM: TELLING IT LIKE IT ISN'T | 9/19/1969 | See Source »

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