Word: wiseness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Everyone hates to pay taxes and the new increase isn't going to make anyone any happier, but perhaps if a blood donor were permitted to deduct say $25 from his income tax each time he was a donor, it would make him a little happier tax-wise and also make him feel he was contributing a little more than his dollars to the war effort...
...move in by offering him the Democratic nomination? It was a wild guess. But certainly Republicans-for-Ike seemed worse off, at the moment, for Ike's homecoming. Up to now, they had been able to push their bandwagon on the strength of confidential hints and wise looks brought back from Ike's headquarters in Marly. But now, as New York Timesman. Arthur Krock put it, the Sphinx had come to the Cave of the Winds. As Ike was leaving the White House, a reporter asked: "Have you given anyone authority or a go-ahead to undertake...
Must Do to Make Do. At Ottawa, the contraction began. Under W. Averell Harriman, an Anglo-American-French committee nicknamed "The Three Wise Men" was formed, and a committee of the twelve NATO countries ("The Twelve Apostles") was set up to assist them. The Wise Men and the Apostles went to work to determine what kind of NATO force could be made out of what the NATO countries could actually contribute. With that, the byword of NATO and SHAPE changed from "must do" to "make...
...previous regrettable occasions a number of students had apparently just emerged from the subway when they were tapped by the Law. I suggest that in future if any student do emerge from the subway to find a riot going, on he would be wise to go right back down again and come up some other place...
...Guard to find replacements for the troops in Korea. Morale was dropping, the Guard was losing its identity. Some units, said Walsh, had been stripped of up to 70% of their key personnel, and had endured levies "far in excess of a fair share." The Guard wanted it stopped. "Wise commanders," said Senator Ed Martin, himself a former commander of Pennsyl vania's 28th Guard Division, know that men "attain greater gallantry in battle when they fight by the side of comrades who know and understand them...