Word: wiseness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Mike was born in a Fairbanks log cabin on March 12, 1919. His father was known far and wide as "Wise Mike," an emigrant from Serbia who followed the gold rush call to Alaska in 1898. Wise Mike was rugged and sometimes mean tempered, and there are those who say he won his nickname with wise-guy answers to everything. His breakfast appetizer was four or five coffee royals-a couple of slugs of bourbon sweetened with a dash of coffee-and his hobby was seven-deck "pan ginney" dealt out at the Pastime Cafe. Wise Mike laboriously scratched dust...
...pink stucco home just north of Manhattan, famed Protestant Preacher Harry Emerson Fosdick, longtime (1930-46) pastor of Manhattan's Rockefeller-endowed interdenominational Riverside Church, turned 80 and offered a wise, gentle explanation of why many sermons are boring. "The business of an essay is elucidation," said he. "The business of a sermon is transformation. Some sermons are deadly dull because they are little essays on pious subjects...
Columnist ELEANOR ROOSEVELT: EVERYONE in this country must have been concerned at the demonstration in Peru against the U.S. and Vice President Nixon, who is our good will ambassador. But it certainly was not wise for the Vice President to go against the advice of the people who knew the area and begged him not to try and keep his appointment at the university. Like all young men. however, he wanted to prove his courage. This is understandable but sometimes leads to unfortunate results...
Government 119 has resulted from several years of joint scholarship by the Rudolphs. They met in graduate school in 1951, when Lloyd was a tutor and Sue had just graduated from Sarah Lawrence. "We met over Aristotle," said Sue. "I needed some wise advice for a paper. Lloyd has been giving me wise advice ever since. We lived through each other's theses and have collaborated on four articles...
...somewhat secretly, he'll be a great artist. But if he's affected by the immense publicity he's gained, he'll be like many other prizewinners : he'll have a brief period of glory and be spoiled. I hope his friends will be wise enough to say, 'Now you mature...