Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...like a movie scene. They were all there in their fur hats, shaking hands and slap ping backs and grinning as if it were a class reunion. And it was, in a way. These were Henry Kissinger's boys, drawn together in part by his wit and wisdom...
...I.R.A. because they say that driving the organization underground would merely complicate police operations. But no one now criticizes the ban, and Tory Leader Edward Heath even wanted it broadened to prevent newspaper and TV interviews with I.R.A. leaders. Only one Labor M.P. questioned the wisdom of rushing through a curtailment of habeas corpus. The sole measure that aroused real objections was the provision allowing British authorities to send United Kingdom citizens who were born in Ulster back home. But those objections were soon voted down. At week's end the emergency legislation was passed unanimously by both...
...years, whenever Lady felt bad or Woody was hot on a new clue, you could count on the rest of us catching grief. To dramatize such things, Mr. Tryon scheduled a hurricane, a flood and the Dutch elm disease. Not to mention yearly blizzards of cliches. But the wisdom that Lady revealed to Woody strikes some people as priceless. "Man is made to suffer, they say," she once opined. On another of many "memorable" occasions, she tossed off one of her best remarks: "People are people wherever you go." No, they don't make 'em like Lady...
...explosions were also clearly part of a larger I.R.A. effort-inaugurated in March of last year with a bomb blast at the Old Bailey in London -to bring more of Ulster's terror to Britain. Although there are still doubts within the I.R.A. councils about the wisdom of this policy, it has given new exposure to the Provisional' campaign, which is lagging and stalemated at home. Their supporters are much less likely to criticize the Proves for bloodiness in Birmingham than they are for terror in Ulster...
...pleased to see the special section on "The World Food Crisis" [Nov. 11], but I was appalled to read the sentence: "American Consumer Advocate Esther Peterson already questions the wisdom of providing food for hungry countries when the U.S. cost of living continues to climb." This is the antithesis of my views...