Word: wiseness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...York's good old days, all the wise birds knew that big, granite-jawed Jim Moran was more than just Mayor William O'Dwyer's deputy fire commissioner. When he listened, politicians understood that O'Dwyer would hear, and when he spoke, they understood that O'Dwyer was speaking. Moran had grown up in one of Brooklyn's toughest districts; the oldest boy in a family of 14 kids, he had worked since he was eleven. Jim Moran had followed O'Dwyer up to the big time: they got together when...
...views, saying "Europe must be defended. Europe can not be adequately defended except by united action; this united action must be applicable not only in Europe but in the east; France, Great Britain, and the United States must hammer out a 20th century policy which will yield wise political, economics and military decisions as to every critical area on the entire globe...
Another five-star general, wise and tired old George Marshall, disputed him doggedly, point by point...
Although the college is rated highly academic-wise, social activities are there for those who want them. The answer one Waban wench gave to the age old question, "Who Wellesley?" seems to sal the tone. Stretching her arms up to the sun, she looked coyly out of the comes of one eye, and demanded, "Well, why the hell...
...deserve to know better, should temper their reviews with ill-considered jobbery and snobbery which words add up not to the expression of a theatrical verite but an unsubstantiated vagueness of feeling as "good" and "bad" about a show which normative without elaboration do nothing to educate audiences theatre wise and leave playwright, actor and producer to work out his own salvation and wonder why one play succeeds so admirably while another falls so completely with the result that the stature of critic has reached a new low; indeed a contemporary belief remains that there exists nothing creative about good...