Word: wiseness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...East to cover the Korean war, he did spend some time at the front. On one occasion he managed to get a ride back to headquarters in a jeep. Jimmy Cannon, of the New York Post, and another correspondent also asked for a lift. Cannon, wise to the fact that a jeep's only comfortable seat is the front one, announced that it should go to the oldest man present. Whereupon, he gave his age (41) and dove for the seat. Under his own rules, however, he had to relinquish it to Osborne, who is 43. Osborne...
Faithful Democrat Allen himself provides a case in point. He is an almost reverent admirer of Dwight Eisenhower who, George declares, refused the Republican nomination because "he didn't think it would be wise of the American people to pick as President a man they knew only as a military leader." If the Republican Party had gotten Ike, George avows, it "would have had a candidate worthy of its Abraham Lincoln tradition." Would George have voted for him? Not on your life. George Allen is first and last a party man. Politics are politics. At all costs, the herd...
...months later, when the Korean war began, Acheson picked up the hot potato again. It can be argued that he had to do this to prevent a possible invasion of Formosa and the consequent deterioration of the American strategic position in the Pacific, but propaganda-wise it was another bad mistake. It appeared as if America were reiterating its support of the discredited regime...
...athletics declared at that time "that we are not interested in winning regardless of everything else . . . We shall instill in the boys the will to win, but we do not intend to let them forget that there is also the grace to lose." This reprint may have been a wise choice...
...line as a whole is alert and follows the ball well." It has ends who can catch a pass a strong center in O'Brien, battle-wise guards in Rosenau and Kanter. Injuries in a few key spots could prove fatal to a squad which lacks real reserve strength...