Word: wiseness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...them flocked from the cities to the country, aiming to buy food and other consumer goods from peasants-with the old won-before the country people caught on. Some of the city people traveled on foot, some in rickety cars, some pedaling on bicycles. But the peasants got wise quickly, and many a city man returned wanly, his won still in his hands...
Timothy J. W. Wise--Varsity Baseball; Varsity Ski Team, Captain; Hasty Pudding Theatricals; Varsity Tennis Squad: Winthrop House Operetta; House Athletics
...mountains, Larry Schinke was keeping a terrible vigil. When he recovered consciousness he found himself under the snow, his feet higher than his head, and with one arm thrown up over his face. The arm made a small air pocket and allowed him to breathe. But, wise in the survival rules of mountaineering, he moved not a muscle for fear of re-starting the slide. He did not know how deep he was (actually he was down only three feet), but he could see light through the snow. He assumed that all three boys had been buried, presumed the party...
Coach Graham Taylor's eight man squad includes Harry Gardner, Steve Reynolds, Pat Colt, Johan Andreson, Hans Vitzthum, Ernest Dane, Chris Ingraham, and former captain Tim Wise. Vitzthum turned in the Crimson's best performance yesterday, finishing 12th in the cross-country...
...Eden and India's Jawaharlal Nehru. But last week, when both Eden and Nehru criticized the U.S. decision to end the Seventh Fleet patrol off Formosa (see INTERNATIONAL), Pearson cautiously parted company with them. Rising in Parliament, he said: "[The] statement by President Eisenhower . . . contained much that was wise and heartening to us all ... Canadians know President Eisenhower well . . . and have full confidence ... in his peaceful and constructive purposes. And I am convinced that one of these purposes ... is to end and not to extend the Korean...