Word: wiseness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...classify Russell as a wise old scholar and Eastland and Talmadge as racists? They're three of a kind, right down the line. Can all this ridiculous hullabaloo be masking the deep paranoid fear of the Southern whites that, given equal rights, the Negro might attempt to rectify generations of persecution...
...Shah's troops, the nomadic tribes "settled," but in 1941, when Reza was forced to abdicate after the Allies moved into Persia, the tribes went back to their ancient way of life. They stuck to it until a few years ago, when British Author Vincent (The Wise Man from the West) Cronin, who visited the Persian interior in hope of taking part in a spring migration of one tribe, found that its nomadic way had finally petered put. The Last Migration, largely based on interviews with tribal leaders, is Cronin's story of these nomads' decline...
Greatest variation is in the accompanying rites. Among some tribes curare is prepared by old women; in a few the witch doctor has a monopoly of the business, but usually all the wise old men get together to brew a batch. A widespread restriction is that the curare-makers shall operate in an isolated part of the forest; often they are required to refrain from sexual intercourse while a batch is being run, and women may be kept at a distance. In some tribes the work must be finished before the sun reaches the zenith (or interrupted then). Many refuse...
...Germany's rapid economic recovery which he attributed not to miracles but "a series of fortuitous events" including the Marshall Plan and the currency reform instituted by the Allied occupation. He praised policies of the German government which encouraged private investment and a free competetive market system by wise tax laws and an anti-cartel policy...
...dignity, and fell back upon his noblest line of defence-his loyalty to the form of religion in which he had been nurtured. He was no longer driven by fate to conciliate Presbytery or coquet with Catholicism." It is hard now to say that he was a wise king, or even a good one, and his 24-year reign gave England some of its worst hours. Civil wars and wars of religion always produce the deepest horrors and fiercest indignities. Charles's England suffered them in abundance, and Cromwell reached the point in his opposition where only the King...