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Word: wisdoms (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...years old, Lisa can hardly qualify as a hard-nosed union organizer. But in five years she's achieved stitches, broken bones, fond farewell letters from schools and numerous employers and five years of organizing wisdom...

Author: By Fran Schumer, | Title: Social Theory on the Streets | 3/8/1973 | See Source »

...applied to of her radical activities in and out of school. Activities like organizing school cafeteria fasts to raise money for the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), and antiwar agitation. Lots of students were agitators in their local high schools but few stepped beyond the bounds of practical wisdom and got themselves thrown out of high school. Agitating against the war in 1966 was not treated as lightly as agitations four years later when protest became more widespread...

Author: By Fran Schumer, | Title: Social Theory on the Streets | 3/8/1973 | See Source »

Well, true to form the Crimson beat Yale and I, despite all my wisdom, once again proved to be a particularly lousy predicter. Not only did it top the Elis for the first time in a decade and make IAB history by winning for the first time since the white elephant landed, plop, in the middle of Cambridge, but it embarrassed the Yalies all afternoon. As it piled up what had to be the highest point total the Elis have ever given up, I couldn't help but think what a remarkable switch Don Gambril has engineered in just...

Author: By Charles B. Straus iii, | Title: CBS Reports | 3/6/1973 | See Source »

Before the start of his speech, McGovern said he was "delighted to be back in the state which demonstrated such remarkable wisdom last November...

Author: By H. JEFFREY Leonard, | Title: McGovern Stresses Importance of Press Freedom | 2/26/1973 | See Source »

...awkward nostalgia Limelight elicits stems partly from its semi-autobiographical stance. Chaplin plays Calvero, an old vaudeville comedian who drinks too much and can't find work. He rescues a suicidal young ballerina (Claire Bloom) and infuses her with his life energy and accumulated wisdom. She becomes a great star; she falls in love with him; he dies...

Author: By Richard Shepro, | Title: The Twilight of Charles Chaplin | 2/23/1973 | See Source »

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