Word: wiseness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...somewhat bigger than Eisenhower's crowd of the week before, Stevenson criticized Ike for his routine endorsement of Joe McCarthy and of Indiana's Senator William Jenner. Said Stevenson: "Disturbing things have taken place in our own land. The pillorying of the innocent has caused the wise to stammer and the timid to retreat...
...sounds like a stunt or a forlorn hope; the extraordinary thing is that it was successful. Herself Surprised is Sara Monday, her book. Sara is Every woman (as much as or more than James Joyce's Molly Bloom) but very much herself as well: a maddeningly complaisant, maddeningly wise, maddeningly female creature. The second volume is the record of Tom Wilcher, one of Sara's employers and lovers, an uncomfortable, comfortably off lawyer with a lust for life and an itch for salvation. The last word, The Horse's Mouth, is Gulley Jimson's, a rascally...
Crimson skiers will hold their first meeting at 7 p.m. tonight in the Union Upper Common Room to organize this year's varsity and freshman teams. Present will be Gray Taylor, coach, and Captain Tim Wise...
With this in mind, the professors decided that the money raised would do more good for Fairchild and Schricker than the bad publicity would do harm. And while this action may or may not be wise, it is not something they can retract. The news is out, and all money collected can do now is help to remove McCarthy and Jenner from the Senate. For this reason, those who share the aims of the Civil Liberties Appeal should have no qualms about supporting...
...successful adman nowadays must "get into the field"-even if it is only on a "one-man survey"-to "check the trade" and get an "on-the-ground approach" to the "big picture." That means, of course, both "sales-wise" and "production-wise." Then, having gotten a "fillin" (which is known in advertising circles as letting an outside dope in on the inside dope), he will be all set to "finalize his thinking" and "explode the market...