Word: wiseness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...great challenge to the technical people of this country. To be in possession of this instrument is an even greater challenge to the free community in which we live. I am confident that, whatever the scientists are able to discover or invent, the people will be good enough and wise enough to control it for the ultimate benefit of everyone...
...they ask our advice, we give it-and if somebody has been running around the state condemning the governor, we forget he's in business." One big commission went to Linn Kidd, an insurance man who was one of George Craig's first political backers. A wise politician, Kidd decided to let others share the largess. Among the men that he selected was Republican State Senator Wesley Malone, a Clinton insurance man, one of the two original sponsors of the toll road plan. Said Malone, who got a $1,600 check as his share of the commission...
...wise decision by the state censers to ban the movie Desires on Sundays reveals the consistency of their policies, which we have often had the pleasure of seeing put into action. The movie begins at the presentation of a morality play at Salzburg. But soon the protagonists, a ballerina who is a helpless dope addict, a city health official who is a pillar of righteousness, and happy family owing a pharmacy, are entangled in the problem of good and evil. Through a series of decisions the latter characters conquer the evil which grips the ballerina and involves, by extension...
...book, he smoothly turns the nice youngster into a glossy horror; later on he turns the horror into a rather sad character who compels sympathy. Novelist Marquand's plot may sag at points, but the caricature of his hero is fascinating, down to the last page, when wise and forbearing Sylvia tucks in her husband with a kiss and a Nembutal. Perhaps the most pathetic thing about Willis Wayde is that, in his own peculiar way, he believes in what he is doing, is sincere even in the dreadful, calculating little social-business notes he always signs: Sincerely, Willis...
...while, it seemed as if Santee's early speed might pay off. Nielsen was rattled at the sight of his rival pulling away, shifted into high and ran his heart out closing the gap. Only Dwyer, striding smoothly some 30 yards back, was wise enough to run his own race. His discipline made Santee look like a schoolboy...