Word: wised
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Trib hired her. By now, she has developed resources and contacts that largely obviate the need for getting along with the embassy, or even with Saigon's somewhat clubby and introspective press corps. What she does not know she can usually get from her two Vietnamese assistants, both wise in the labyrinthine ways of the country's politics. "I don't date," she says. "Men are a luxury I can't afford. I'm a woman journalist, and I'm competing with men. But I follow fashions-and General Khanh likes my clothes...
...after sandwiching in a buffet supper for some 1,500 White House staffers, the President greeted 14 business leaders. As he always does, Johnson impressed the businessmen, and A. T. & T.'s Frederick R. Kappel spoke for them all when he reported that the President "is being extremely wise in his thoughtful evaluation" of the U.S. economy...
Barring a so-so football record, the University of Iowa is a contented campus this fall. It has regents who value academic freedom, faculty and students hospitable to fresh ideas, ever-more-liberal financial support from the legislature. More important, the university has a tradition of wise, long-reigning presidents. Last week Iowa installed a new one, the first in 24 years...
...Agriculture Edgard Pisani set would-be wine lovers fermenting last July when he advised colleagues at a Cabinet meeting to lay in a few casks of 1964 because it was probably going to be the best vintage since 1921. To insiders, however, this showed him about as wine-wise as a gas-station attendant in Marseille...
Most of the 16 undergraduates present disputed the Committee's concern with their morality, but urged that the College provide undergraduates with the information necessary to make a wise moral decision. Fourteen of the students felt the University Health Services ought to make available both medical and psychological advice about the consequences of sexual relations...