Word: wised
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...much energy into Fridays she had none left for the following Thursdays. One Thursday she fainted. So she said, Goodbye Playground! Decided against becoming a princess. Now she lives with a Syrian under a stairwell. They keep three cats and nineteen children. The cats, of course, have priority seat-wise in the car when they're vacationing, but the children can come too if they like. It's all extremely laissez faire...
...COLLECTED STORIES OF ANDRE MAUROIS. In 38 tales framed as conversations, recollections and letters, the late distinguished partisan in the battle of the sexes tours the terrain of women who are either wise or foolish, vital or declining, in love or remembering what it was like...
...longer look like valentines to the audience. What the actors, and presumably Hamlin, didn't realize about Romeo and Juliet is that their love is so intense they can be frank about it. Their expressiveness crystalizes their feeling for each other into a religion. They may not be wise about preserving themselves in the world, they may be young, but their creed is unshakable. Each is a disciple in his own eyes, a saviour in the eyes of the beloved...
...twin-engine plane, carrying Otis Redding and his Rhythm and Blues revue, plunged into an icy lake Sunday while approaching the Madison, Wise, airport...
...racial problems, education should be handled with extreme care in the effort to save money. University of Chicago Economist Theodore Schultz calculates that the steadily improving education of the U.S. labor force has increased real national income by one-fifth. But Congress is imprudently making some penny-wise reductions in worthwhile federal programs. Example: in fiscal 1966, the Government supported 15,000 graduate students, many of whom intended to become college professors; this year the number is down to 10,500. The saving is about $22.5 million, hardly enough to justify a move bound to aggravate the teacher shortage...