Word: wiseness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...soldiers, seeking a front man for the anti-Farouk uprising, had picked the bluff, respected, thrice-wounded soldier. The choice was happy: the nation cried "Yahish [long live] Mohammed Naguib," and flocked to him, holding out its centuries-old wounds. Naguib looked as a good father should−kindly, wise, genial. He smoked a pipe; he spoke softly and slowly; he waved aside guards and let the lowly approach. When they tried to kiss his hands, he would raise up the humble and buss them on the cheeks. He was honest and looked it, and Egyptians who had felt leaderless...
...requests through civilian banking channels. Such loans would model inter-American business relationships on those of this country. Already the Export-Import Bank, the main agency for Washington's foreign loan arrangements, has diminished the flow of capital to private industry in South America. And this policy is a wise one. While loans to Latin governments for national improvements will continue, it is wrong for Washington to compete with private banking houses in a field that offers a legitimate area of profit. Nor is the Government willing to continue using budgeted funds to finance private gain in foreign countries...
...Humphreys, owner of Briggs and Briggs, charged the drastic reductions were unwise. "In any line," Humpherys said, "you can't sell merchandise for what you pay for it." On the other hand, John H. Waugh, manager of Minute Man Radio Co., has defended the new price decreases as wise in its policy, and has slashed prices at his store up to 40 percent...
...diamond and figures that Ambrose is the perfect patsy. The mobster tries to get his victim to "borrow" the stone and cut it at home, but meanwhile the women in the caper unexpectedly drift into a nest-building mood over the poor motherless boy, and decide to put him wise to the double-cross. How Comedian Skelton cracks the conspiracy and the Goddess with one wild stroke of the old slapstick provides a real Keystone Kop finish...
...wise and hardened Carnival-goers knew to plan their days. Knowing that they could not, for instance, witness both the judging of the Dormitory and Fraternity Ice Statues at 1:00 P.M. and the Special Date's Slalom at 1:30, they flipped coins and met the problem with mustered resolve...