Word: wiseness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...French for independence. In June 1953 he fled with fanfare to neighboring Thailand, where he swore he would remain until the French gave way. King Norodom subsequently returned, started training an army of 100,000 volunteers, as the French decided to quit Cambodia. "A young man with a wise head," commented Jawaharlal Nehru admiringly...
...countless reasons it today impossible to recreate exactly the sounds that met medieval and early Renaissance cars, but this in to wise invalidates the attempt. Even so, the listener may not have an easy time of it. The various musical styles and the language of the texts are relatively unfamiliar (the singers wisely read an English translation of the texts before each vocal piece). The instruments used are now obsolete and belong to what wee called "low instruments"--the lowness referring not to pitch but to decibels--in this case, the recorder, lute, viol and clavichord, all of which...
...Wolfe, Herman Melville, and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Houghton's theatre collection is one of its most unusual attractions--even holding the answer to "whether Macbeth should be played in quilts." A rare series of seventeenth century American almanacs, precursors to Poor Richard, are especially valuable and amusing. Among the wise saying are the following: 'All men like money; some their wives," and "He that marries for love has good nights but sorry days." The world's largest series of books and manuscripts by John Kcats occupies a special room and is the Library's most famous another collection...
...have dedicated herself to the service of a foreign power . . . The employer had not only the right to protect itself and its customers against the clear and present danger of continuing a Communist Party member in its employ, but also the duty to take such action as it deemed wise to preserve order in its plant and to protect its other employees . . . against the same danger and the possibility of 'sabotage, force, violence' . . . The courts of this country, by making such an order [to reinstate Mrs. Walker], would be but aiding toward destruction of the Government they...
...fails, Grace could conceivably break her contract and return to television. Or she could try the stage, where acting talent counts for more, and the competition is tougher. She could always give up the whole thing for the role of wealthy young socialite. But if her studio mentors are wise, and if Grace is as wary as she has so far proved to be, the young beauty from Philadelphia may yet become an authentic jewel in Hollywood's tinsel crown...