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Word: wisdoms (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rebels, because he was convinced that if he did, the Moslem members of the armed forces would mutiny. This decision won him great popularity with the Moslems. The Christians, who make up half of Lebanon's 1,700,000 population, were at first outraged, but gradually recognized the wisdom of the Christian commander. As a result, Chamoun stepped down, Chehab was named President by parliament, and when he reluctantly accepted, the U.S. marines withdrew...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lebanon: The Sweet Era | 8/28/1964 | See Source »

...pressing Bobby's case. "He shot us down," grumbled one of Bobby's friends angrily. Despite the anger, it is likely that Kennedy's friends will rally round the President soon again, for they have no place else to go. And they will probably accept the wisdom of the President's picking someone who approximates his own portrait of the ideal vice-presidential candidate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Democrats: Goodbye Bobby | 8/7/1964 | See Source »

...from the truths that God has revealed about His creation. Circumstances do change. So do the problems that are shaped by circumstances. But the principles that govern the solution of the problems do not. The Conservative approach is nothing more or less than an attempt to apply the wisdom and experience and the revealed truths of the past to the problems of today...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Peddler's Grandson | 7/24/1964 | See Source »

...poor again," he said recently, "and I have taken all the precautions to see that I shan't be." As he cruised in his yacht on the sunny Black Sea off Bulgaria last week while pandemonium hit the London Exchange, John Bloom must have reflected on the wisdom of those precautions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Britain: Trouble in Never-Never Land | 7/24/1964 | See Source »

...Republicans of America have, every right in the world to be disgusted with their gutless, confused and wayward party. Let them nominate a man with foresight, leadership, presidential principles and wisdom-Everett McKinley Dirksen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jul. 3, 1964 | 7/3/1964 | See Source »

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