Word: wiseness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Wise? The left-wing Laborite firebrands of Aneurin Bevan saw the news as a made-in-America chance to clobber both the U.S. and the Conservative government. "If you want to go to war," cried Bevan dramatically, "why not say so?" But this time the hostility did not stop at the left. Winston Churchill, embarrassed and angered by the U.S. failure to consult him in advance of the air raids, made only fitful attempts to douse the diplomatic blaze, and in the main debate he pointedly took no part. Quiet, colorless Clement Attlee, no enemy...
...anima" (the "woman in man," i.e., the female component of the masculine psyche, represented concretely in images ranging from Helen of Troy to the modern pin-up girl), the "animus" (corresponding male image, in the female psyche), the "great earth mother" (representing the material aspects of nature), the "wise old man" (personification of the spiritual principle, i.e., God). If all mankind dreamed more or less alike in its legends and religious symbols, it was reasonable to suppose the existence of a universal unconscious mind-a vast reservoir of wisdom from which these dreams arose. Jung termed this reservoir the "collective...
Point of Law. In St. Louis, Henry Wise argued in court that his six-week-old mongrel was a pup rather than a dog, thus won an acquittal on a charge of not owning a dog license...
...pretty much alike. First the delegates got a little opening talk from Ike. His words to the Jersey delegates were typical: "I have no panaceas. Certainly I'm no miracle man. I'll make no promises over and above those I think can be accepted by a wise administration in frugality and thrift ... I doubt if there are any among you so innocent of politics as I. All I can do is put before you what I believe. All I can offer is honesty...
...three Class Marshals, Peterson, John L. Lewis, Jr., and Walter C. Carrington, made the presentation of the Class colors to freshmen William Coakley, George MacDonald, and David Wise...