Word: wiseness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...manner, the Vice President described the problems and aspirations of Asian peoples, and their vulnerability to Communism. He said: "We shook hands with over 100,000 people . . . Why see these ordinary people? . . . We wanted them to know America, and we wanted to know them." Nixon recalled that the "very wise and very young" King of Siam had summed up his people's needs: military assistance, economic assistance and understanding. "Significantly enough, he told me that understanding was the most important of the three...
...route of the Wise Men is today a deadly pilgrimage that winds through mine-strewn roads and olive groves. So on the morning before Christmas Eve, Jordan and Israeli soldiers, forgetting their hostility, carefully remove their own mines, and fill in their tank traps. Then together the hostile soldiers stretch hundreds of yards of white tape along the narrow, unlit road to guide the Christians. At dark, as the lights of the procession approach, waiting Israel and Jordanian armored cars turn on their searchlights and shout an official "Merry Christmas" to the caravan of dignitaries. From the groves of olive...
...closed by indulging in a luxury that was long the privilege of the G.O.P.-visualizing the beneficial results to accrue from turning the bunglers of today out of office. After that, said Stevenson, "I see [the U.S.] united in high endeavors, standing once again before the world calm, wise and resolute, a beacon of hope, a citadel of fortitude-and of faith...
...Nobel Prize. His Zorba the Greek had a picaresque hero who, almost alone in the fiction of 1953, communicated the conviction that it is wonderful to be alive. By comparison, the chest-beating hero of Saul Bellow's The Adventures of Augie March was a neurotic wise guy-though Augie did better than Zorba in the bookstores...
...Harry P. Gelles, Alex H. Haegler, Francis S. Holmes, Edmund Jacobson, Jr., William Ezra Lingelback III, Dennis G. Little, Robert A. Lloyd, Rustin C. McIntosh, Charles A. Platt, Juan M. Rodrigues, David C. Rogers, Hugh A. Sargent, Stephen J. Szaraz, Godfrey Truslow, Marvin Weiss, John S. Whiting, David S. Wise, Arthur D. Levin...