Word: wised
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Barefoot Boy named Billy. Moral: "It is a Brave thing to Be a Bee." Poet Louis Untermeyer uses a mere 179 words to embolden his readers in One and One and One. Plot: a cat without a home meets a dog without a bone. Both join a wise old owl and a friendly bear, and they discover...
...still permissible 3? for unsealed envelopes), but also "to supply a colorful fillip" to the greeting business. As usual, the bureaucrats did not consider that good and original design-or even the tiniest hint that Christmas is, after all, Christ's birthday-might be a necessary ingredient, fillip-wise...
...Washington, the Associated Press reported, President Kennedy announced plans to attend the funeral. Kennedy called Mrs. Roosevelt "both an inspiration and a friend," and said her death will be "deeply felt by all those who admired her tireless idealism or benefited from her good works and wise counsel...
Scarlatti-Tommasini: The Good-Humored Ladies; Bach-Walton: The Wise Virgins (the Concert Arts Orchestra, Robert Irving conducting; Capitol). Two ballet scores, dating respectively from 1917 and 1940. The Ladies, adapted by Italian Composer Vincenzo Tommasini from the works of Scarlatti, is airy, bright, bubbling, and contains scarcely a note that does not please the ear. The Virgins, adapted from the works of Bach by England's William Walton, is unfailingly evocative of a less harried time. Neither of the ballets survives as a stage work, but their music deserves a better fate-and gets it here...
...voluntary censorship' by which the press and radio were guided in World War II and the Korean war. Newspapermen who were in Washington during those two wars found it difficult to see where the difference lay." The New York Herald Tribune's Washington Correspondent David Wise accused President Kennedy of deliberate deception, and decided that this was worse than the crisis itself: "If the line between truth and falsehood should become permanently clouded, then the republic, in an effort to combat the perils without, faces an even greater danger within." Editorialized the Los Angeles Times...