Word: wised
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Just about then a fictional replay of the Nixon tragedy-Washington: Behind Closed Doors- was holding 50 million Americans in front of their TV screens. The best line of the day came out of this electronic novel. Andy Griffith, playing a retiring President patterned on Lyndon Johnson, cast a wise eye on Jason Robards, the fictional Nixon, and advised, "It's plenty hard to lose the affection and trust of those people. But let me tell you something, lose it once by God you never get it back...
...Tribune was much more than sports-writing. The spectators held just as much fascination for him, and it was from covering baseball that Ring, we are told, discovered the archetypal American: "fast-talking, egocentric, semiliterate, innocent, gullible and ill-informed, a character later known as the 'wisecracker' or the 'wise boob.'" Lardner, however, did not imply scorn or look condescendingly on the people he wrote about and in one of his first clips, with which Yardley begins the book, we can see how much Lardner loved the game...
...Book of Lists, Wallechinsky, I. & A. Wallace (2) 2. Looking Out for #1, Ringer (1) 3. Your Erroneous Zones, Dyer (4) 4. The Dragons of Eden, Sagan (3) 5. Vivien Leigh, Edwards (5) 6. All Things Wise and Wonderful, Herriot (8) 1. The Camera Never Blinks, Rather (6) 8. It Didn't Start with Watergate, Lasky (7) 9. The Managerial Woman, Henning & Jardim (9) 10. Five Seasons, Angell
...Henry Wise '18, attorney for the 46-member policemen's union, said yesterday that any further movement in the nine-month-old talks depends on the administration's reaction to union suggestions regarding a proposed set of departmental regulations...
...Wise said the union is waiting for Joe B. Wyatt, vice president for administration, to react to a memo that Laurence F. Letteri, president of the police association, sent Wyatt earlier this month. The memo contained the union's comments on a number of proposed changes in the department's procedures...