Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...serving for so long as a base for the sabotage attacks on South African targets by the militant African National Congress, Mozambique increasingly feared retaliation by South Africa; on top of that, the country had been weakened by a severe drought. Marxist Angola, under siege by UNITA, saw the wisdom of compromise following consistently heavy losses during South African raids. But South Africa, too, has been drained by constant war. Namibia alone costs South Africa $1 billion annually, some 6% of the national budget. The continuing toll of casualties has dismayed the public, and pressure from abroad for Namibia...
...sure, "the sanctity of the English sentence," is something few students discover, but a good literary education leads to other discoverers, wider in scope, among them the discovery that the works of great writers nourish the imagination and augment the wisdom of experience. Andy took courses under professors capable of giving such a literary education but none seems to have succeeded with...
...have been cheering for the Mahre twins for years and know which one is which. You ran a picture of Steve when you meant to run one of Phil in the slalom race that brought him gold. The conventional wisdom for telling the twins apart is that Phil wears blue goggles (both Phil and blue have four letters) and Steve wears white goggles (both name and color have five letters). The Mahre twin in your picture is wearing white goggles; therefore, he must be Steve...
...moment Hartmania infused the campaign. Newspaper pundits and political analysts, professional know-it-alls caught knowing almost nothing, chased after the phenomenon. Their continuing embarrassing bewilderment made many of them uneasy. "You can feel a terrible shaking of the earth," said New Republic Editor Hendrik Hertzberg, "as new conventional wisdom struggles to be born." New York Times Columnist Tom Wicker observed that "the publicity that the press gave to the 'upset' of its own erroneous expectations" was responsible for Hart's sudden, starry prominence...
...recognizing this that forced most of McGovern's opposition to focus not on his platform, but on so called political realities. "A vote for McGovern, is a vote for Reagan," and "He'll never get elected" are frequent rejoinders to would-be McGovern backers. But to accept this cynical wisdom is misguided on several counts. First, if political history--and most recently the New Hampshire primary--has shown anything, it is that as the saying goes, "the opera ain't over until the fat lady sings." McGovern finished only a slight margin behind Gary Hart in the Iowa caucuses, annd...