Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...state government more effective. "A lot of people think the state is on the way out," he says, "for it has been an historical, not a constitutional, feeling since the Roosevelt days that the state is not effective in education; the attitude for years has been that all the wisdom lies in one place...
...problems of students--in age and experience--of the opportunity to influence the choice of powerful overseers; it virtually precludes representation of younger, more concerned men on the Board; and it encourages voting along class lines. The five years out of college will not provide any kind of wisdom indispensible to the solemn task of choosing overseers. This rule, an apparent holdover from Reconstruction days, should be abolished...
...which joins us with our allies in Saigon, there has emerged a common dedication to the peaceful progress of the people of Viet Nam. The pledge of Honolulu will be kept, and the pledge of Baltimore stands open-to help the men of the North when they have the wisdom to be ready...
...Latin motto -- "wisdom challenges youth's vigor" -- adorns a perpetual trophy designed by coach Edo Marion for this revival of an old tradition...
...Golden Bridge. Rhode Island's Claiborne Pell was dubious about the wisdom of bombing the North, wanted to know "where in history do we find other examples of where bombing has made people more willing to come to the negotiating table?" Nowhere, said Taylor. "We have never had a situation like this," he observed. "You recall in World War II it was fight to the end or be destroyed, and many people preferred to be destroyed rather than to accept unconditional surrender. Here we are not doing that at all. We are constantly pointing out the better life that...