Word: wised
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...last week, "must be regarded as one of the regular instruments by which the Soviet secret service seeks to suborn and enlist British agents who can furnish it with our state secrets." Thus was Brit ain's security system warned about Soviet Sigmunds. But would it ever get wise to British Veras...
This may be a wise route to political success. Young republican internal politics are often more petty and degrading than the senior party's even though the stakes are lower. By avoiding the YR's, one enters politics later with fewer enemies...
...every person's life: issues concerning the basis of an individual's felt obligation to others, the relations of the individual to his society, and so on. These philosophic issues, in other words, are humanistic ones. Most persons never find completely satisfactory answers concerning them. Even a perfectly wise man, we might suppose, though he would not be troubled by the issues, could not eliminate them from his life--form he would still have to live according to certain positions with regard to them...
Died. Alfred Whitney Griswold, 56, 16th president of Yale University, witty critic and wise champion of U.S. liberal arts education; of cancer; in New Haven (see EDUCATION...
...Kill a Mockingbird. Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize novel comes off almost better on the screen than on the page. Gregory Peck is wise and warm, and three children-Mary Badham, Phillip Alford and John Megna-are so convincingly rambunctious that they hardly seem to be acting...