Word: wised
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Furthermore, they said the U.S. would be wise to accept the Soviet plan for a year or two, because even the best of systems would require a year or two to install adequate control stations. And in the next few years, scientists might actually develop foolproof detectors, or the Soviets might give a bit more on inspection. Most important, the Soviets had apparently accepted the principle of inspection (albeit with precious few specifics), and inspection is the starting point for any realistic system of disarmament. By making this start-at an admitted risk-the U.S., they held, would win respect...
...have a wise saying," said he: " 'Better to have 100 friends than 100 rubles.' We would like France's friends to become our friends." But in his prepared answers to questions put by correspondents, there was a good deal more bite. "We want a final period put to the Second World War by a peace treaty. If our efforts remain in vain, we will be led to conclude a unilateral treaty of peace with the Democratic German Republic." And what of Western rights in Berlin and the null allied garrison? Khrushchev acted as though the garrison...
...suggested that there is room for agreement in principle. Recalling that "for some time past," the Anglican and Episcopal churches have formally favored artificial birth control (the position most recently affirmed at the Lambeth Conference of 1958), Dr. Fisher explained in the Canterbury Diocese Notes why he considered "wise and controlled" family planning "an evident Christian duty...
...think that it is wise to describe the Kikuyu rite of female circumcision as barbaric just because it is not practiced in the U.S. I would like to remind you that female circumcision is common in many parts of Africa and in other parts of the world also...
Tiamat marries the editor's daughter, who, like all of the author's women, is impossibly beautiful, strong, passionate, lov ing and wise (for instance, she knows that as miners get silicosis. matadors are gored and fishermen drowned, so news papermen get drunk). Despite her virtues Tiamat takes a mistress. Since this is a fable of corruption, his enraged father-in-law offers him two choices : quit the paper, or incur certain moral leprosy by becoming a columnist. The scapegrace journalist chooses to lose his soul, and the author to misplace both humor and control of his figures...