Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Serpent[those born in 1953, 1965, 1977]- You have more than your share of the world's gifts, including basic wisdom. You are likely to be a handsome, well-formed man or a graceful beautiful woman...
Forecasting the weather has long occupied man's attention. Early farmers and sailors, whose livelihoods-and sometimes lives-depended upon the weather, learned by experience how to read the signs that frequently presaged change. Sailors realized from early days the general wisdom of the poem "Sky red in the morning/ Is a sailor's sure warning/ Sky red at night/ Is the sailor's delight." Farmers observed that dandelions and other flowers closed when a storm was approaching and had a simple way of telling the temperature from the rate at which crickets chirp: count the number...
...impossible. He reconciled his administration and himself to the state legislative leadership, mollified the press, and convinced people he would be more than just a one term governor. State Sen. Alan Sisitsky, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee and a vocal Dukakis critic remarked last week that "conventional wisdom says he can not be defeated" for re-election...
...backslapping Governor. As State Sen. James Kelly, Chairman of the Senate Ways and Means Committee noted last week, "The unacceptability of the Governor's style is settled." But more importantly, as John Abbott, Harrington's press aide noted, Dukakis no longer considers himself the "sole repository of all wisdom and knowledge...
Haley's twelve years of research and writing on Roots had begun. In retrospect, Haley firmly believes it was more than his own perseverance that got the book finished. "However this sounds," he says, "it was one of those things that God in his infinite wisdom and in his time and way decided should happen. I feel I'm a conduit through which this is happening. It was just something that was meant to be. I say this because there were so many things that had to happen over which I had no control. And if any one thing hadn...