Word: wised
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...year ago. A group of prominent American clergymen has asked for a cessation of bombing. Harvard Professor Edwin Reischauer, former U.S. Ambassador to Japan and now head of a State Department advisory group on Asian affairs, wrote that a gradual suspension of bombing "probably would be the wise course." U Thant has repeatedly urged the U.S. to call off the raids, and the Administration is aware that most free-world governments also favor a pause...
...learned how or why the universe contrived to implode and intellectually code the myriadly unique, chromosomically orchestrated DNA-RNA, quadripartite moleculed, binary-paired, helically extended, and unzippingly dichotomied, regenerative symphonic jazz," he admitted^ in sesquipedalian Fullerese. In fact, "I am the most unlearned man I know." He did feel wise enough, however, to offer one small generalization: "It takes two to make a baby, but it takes God to make...
...Itallie conveys an especially timely sensation, that of a world of fragmented experience so speeded up past human endurance that a man must either die laughing or go mad. America Hurrah is as lively as a sand tick. It is anguishingly funny, yet oddly poignant, and more than passing wise in the ways of today's world...
Launched on a near-perfect trajec tory toward the moon, Orbiter 2 briefly lost and then regained its navigational lock on its guiding star Canopus; other wise it was not bothered by glitches. As it sped toward the moon 93 hours later, some 2,770 miles above the lunar sur face, Orbiter's retrorocket fired, slowing the craft enough for lunar gravity to draw it into an elliptical orbit...
...wise for the University to provide students as body guards for visiting secretaries of defense? If the actions of several husky undergraduates Monday afternoon is any indication of future behavior, it certainly...