Word: wiseness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Marion. In committee hearings Uncle Carl's slow drawl and subtle digs ("Wha'd'ya say yer name wuz, Gen'ral?") can shake stars and tangle braid. Though he has long been a stalwart defender of a big Navy, knowledgeable Carl Vinson is also a wise, powerful force for a strong military establishment. But Ike's plan was too much for Uncle Carl...
...Bronx every weekend 'to see real people.' The cultural difference between Massachusetts and New Mexico is astonishing. Many people leave because they feel that they must touch home base. They don't want the 'You Can't Go Home Again' feeling. Leaving for this reason is very wise...
...Armistice Day, 1932. It was an unmistakably Christian service, with lessons from the Bible and a recitation of the Lord's Prayer. Dean Willard L. Sperry of the Divinity School was completely explicit in emphasizing the church's Christian character: "Wherefore unto the King Eternal, Immortal, Invisible, the only Wise God, we dedicate this Church, in the service of Christ...." Bishop William Lawrence '71 added in his address, "This Chapel stands in the name of Him whose birth was heralded by the words, 'Peace on earth, good will towards men.'" The church was modeled after King's Chapel in Boston...
...United Auto Workers aggressively presented their new wage demands to Ford and Chrysler last week, Detroit's worried automakers got some sound advice from Harvard University. Said Economist Sumner Slichter: "The auto companies would be wise to maintain a united front that would sooner or later lead to industry-wide bargaining...
Piclc-Me-Up. In Hartford, Conn., Clyde Wise was taken to a hospital after downing a Sunday-morning mixed drink containing a can of beer, two bottles of Mercurochrome, a bottle of iodine, 50 aspirins. Epsom salts, cold pills, a bottle of paregoric, ink eradicator, adhesive-tape remover, vitamin pills...