Word: wiseness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that Daniel Wood Spock (8 Ibs. 5 oz.) has the long-boned family heels, shipped off to the papa, Dayton Museum of Natural History Employee Michael Spock, a free copy of the bestselling (some 10 million copies) manual that has helped mold countless U.S. kiddies from cradle to kindergarten. Wise Dr. Spock promised to steer clear of ad-lib footnotes. Said he: "Don't meddle in your grandchildren's upbringing...
...beginner. Public Relations Man Carter succeeded pretty well. After the bureaucracy-wise Washington Daily News sniffed out the story, both he and his father hit newspapers and TV stations all over the country-including the ones back home. The Des Moines Register, for example, allowed dryly that "lowans will fully appreciate how quickly Congressman Carter is becoming adjusted to the Washington style of doing things...
Toward week's end the free world's biggest headlines dealt not with threats of war, or Communist perfidy or international politicking, but with the fact that one man-U.S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles-lay ill. "Wise counsel," "singleminded strength," "indispensable man" -the tributes buzzed in dozens of languages and dialects from Tripoli to West Berlin. The British Foreign Office, which had despised him for Suez, was "extraordinarily sorry." The French Foreign Office, which had blamed him for North Africa, now regretted "the greatest possible loss for the West." The Foreign Office of West Germany...
...Eleanor Lansing Dulles, a State Department Germany expert, came the closest approach to the truth that is possible in such a situation: "It is grave. There is no question about it. But Foster has more than the normal power of selfdiscipline, and in his case it isn't wise to go on averages...
...discussing the order and amendment, several councilors spoke at length on their views toward Harvard expansion. Supporting the order, Councilor Mrs. Pearl K. Wise proposed a five-point program for bettering the University's relations with the city...