Word: wiseness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Those voicing opposition included Edward Crane '38, Joseph DeGuglielmo '29, Charles Watson and Mrs. Pearl K. Wise. They based their opposition on the fact that control of the basin doesn't rest in the hands of the Council, but in the Metropolitan District Commission...
...green for LeMay, pink for able Air Force Secretary James Douglas, white for his staff. Around him hangs the sense of illustrious predecessors: husky, flamboyant "Hap" Arnold; sinewy, battle-tried "Tooey" Spaatz; slim Hoyt Vandenberg, the old flyer with a 50-mission crush in his cap; Nate Twining, the wise old pilot who led the USAF from props to jets. There Tommy White does his broad-gauge best with what he has. But nobody in the Pentagon knows better than he that he has his problems too. Among them...
...those wise birds were tougher than they looked. They ruffled up their feathers and flattened the visitor before he could get started. And with Crow's wings clipped, the vaunted Aggie attack never got off the ground. Rice Quarterbacks Hill and Ryan alternated at the head of a relentless running game that ground out a first-half touchdown to put the Owls in front 7-0, while vicious Rice tacklers stopped every Aggie effort that came close to scoring. Finally the desperate Aggies were forced to use Crow as a decoy, and eventually, in the final quarter their...
...termagant wife loudest of all. Only Satan takes pity and whispers to Gimpel that he could be avenged on the world by deceiving it in turn. Gimpel tries, but it is not in him: he is too much the fool even to be evil. The worldly-wise (including the reader) are sharply reproached by Gimpel's foolishness and yet they are also apt to envy it, for it is illuminated by the saintly simpleton's strange, special kind of dignity. Unpretentiously, almost crudely sketched, Gimpel is an unforgettable character, deeply moving in his gentle submission to all blows...
...Kingdom of God was to him a corporate enterprise of salvation-something that could be brought a lot closer by wise legislation and the use of social pressure to protect the oppressed workingman and limit the power of his boss, to drive out the corrupt politician and put the vast natural resources of the New World into the public domain. Clergymen and laymen took up the cry 'for this challenging new way of interpreting ,the New Testament. Behind Rauschenbusch a new generation of militant ministers, such as Baptist Harry Emerson Fosdick, the late Methodist Bishop Francis J. McConnell...