Word: wiseness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Harriman: Certainly the policies which we have adopted [in the Far East] are wise and working. The Point Four program is one of the most enlightened policies any nation started. It is a working miracle and it is giving hope to those people for a decent life in freedom. It's a tragedy to see those relatively small...
Earthquake-wise Bakersfield reacted without panic. In the California Theater for example 13-year-old Bob Shaffer herded a flock of youngsters out of the matinee so calmly that they were hardly jostled. Ambulances and police rescue squads began rolling as soon as the earth stopped shuddering. They found the downtown business section of Bakersfield hardest hit, but counted a remarkably light toll of two dead (from falling roofs) and 32 hurt. Property damage was estimated upwards from $20 million, adding to the $40 million caused by last month's quake and subsequent settling shocks...
...doctors' recommendation: to reduce "relatively rare" ring deaths, the rest of the U.S. would be wise to copy Colorado law, make "compulsory [brain wave] examinations . . . a required part of [the] routine...
...After his announcement last February, the black-haired young (44) seventh-term Congressman began stumping the state on an eight-speech-a-day schedule. His "principal issue" was dramatized in a song to the tune of Hoop-dee-doo, which proclaimed: "Go with Gore-Albert Gore. He's wise and able and he's just forty-four . . ." Tennessee politicians and pundits began to say he would beat McKellar...
...outlook is dismal, Long concludes, and the problem is almost as old as formal education. Taking note of a similar situation more than 2,000 years ago, the Greek Philosopher Isocrates dourly counseled his colleagues: "They who teach wisdom . . . ought certainly to be wise themselves; but if any man were to sell such a bargain for such a price, he would be convicted of the most evident folly...