Word: wiseness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Adenauer is stiff and unbending, a man of the old school who thinks children-and cabinet officers-should be seen and not heard. Age has not mellowed him, it has made him wise; power has not wearied him, but it has made him as hard as nails...
...farmer began to fear that his newly found standard of living was slipping away too An understanding of the farmer's attitude was reflected in what Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson, a bitter foe of regimentation, had to say about the wheat vote: "Farmers have made a wise decision-a decision in their own best interests...
Frenchmen who still pictured the South as a Scarlett O'Hara land of cotton plantations and Negro mammies were put wise: "To tell the truth, we did not see much cotton in the South. What we saw was oil, natural gas, helium, steel, magnesium, atomic energy and chemical plants." The Gossets were impressed with the advance of Negro education; they called all-Negro Howard University (in Washington, D.C.) "more modern than the average European university." To the French reporters, the Vieux Carre of French New Orleans was a fake-with its "pretentious airs of romanticism," its "tourist traps...
...line or both, without ever tripping over its danceable rhythm. With the precision of a Marine parade and the grace of a lace handkerchief waving on the sidelines, the big band runs through a notably moist version of Rain, a playful Midnight Sleighride, a dreamy April in Paris. Jazz-wise listeners only had an occasional sense of too much novelty for its own sake...
Under sharp prodding by the Alabama Tuberculosis Association, with eloquent backing from the press, tax-conscious Governor Gordon Persons and the legislature saw that Alabama's penny-wise policy was pound-foolish. The best they could do was to promise to try to find $500,000-somewhere. But every dollar that Alabama "saved" by not spending it this year would mean tens of dollars to be spent in future years on neglected cases, and many a life would be lost. From more than one county came reports of women awaiting admission to a sanatorium and, to support themselves, minding...