Word: wiseness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Most tourists believe in love at first site. Hurrying and scurrying about, they rarely stop to court an insight. Three unhurried tourists currently grace the book counters with travel accounts that are wise, witty and uncommonly well-written. Laving their individual sensibilities in the "implacable light" of the Mediterranean littoral, these writers perceive and share the region's Antaeus-like grip on life for life's sake...
...daughter "Tricia" had made paper nut holders shaped like Pilgrims' hats. Daughter Julie had worked all morning making place cards of yellow paper, taken from the work pads in her father's den, brightly colored with crayon. The Vice President's read: "Be Strong Be Wise Be Thoughtful Be Kind." After dinner, Nixon and U.S. Attorney General Rogers watched football on television (Texas 9, Texas A. & M. 7). Late that afternoon, returning from a walk down Forest Lane, Tricia wanted to play basketball, hunted around until she found a soccer ball given Nixon by an Israeli soccer...
Stevenson in Europe for the NATO meeting would have given some prestige to the American delegation; he is remembered there as a wise and temperate man. Stevenson in Europe would have reassured those Americans who have serious doubts about the Eisenhower-Dulles foreign policy. And most important, Stevenson in Europe might have introduced some political and economic dimensions for what promises to be a strictly military conference...
PIETER BRUEGEL was a lowbrow in art. In an age when the Italian Renaissance was sweeping all before it, Bruegel kept his Dutch feet firmly on lowland ground, stuck close to everyman's taste. His zestful love of practical jokes, wise saws, old proverbs and the daily life in field and village earned him the nickname of "Peasant" Bruegel. But history has proved that Bruegel was dealing with an eternal response of man that lies deeper than the shift and change of artistic fashion. Collected by princes and merchants alike, he has remained one of the most popular artists...
Since it is spinning end-over-end, the rocket could catch the air length-wise, and stay in the atmosphere for some time, carried along by the motion of the earth. Or, as an alternative, it could rapidly rush to the earth...