Word: wiseness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...birds wise up that U.S. State Department policy on Red Egypt now is just about as cockeyed as Britain's policy on Red China used...
Rather than rule out departures the Masters would do better to let the Senior Tutors grant permission to leave the Houses when they think wise. They would also do well to advocate more single rooms and quiet halls in the new Houses so that, in the future, their belief that every undergraduate should live in a House would be more realistic...
Arnold H. Wise, Chief Counsel for the New York Department of Motor Vehicles, favored "an immediate investigation." Wise said that New York, which has a reciprocal agreement with Massachusetts, might take "retaliatory action" if the order, aimed primarily at out-of-state cars, is adopted...
...overheard some bandits plotting on the hill comes down to tell the village that it will be raided as soon as the rice is cut. But one man, Rikichi (Yoshio Tsuchiya), whose wife was carried off in the last raid, does not wail; he resolves to fight. And the wise old man who lives in the mill reveals to the vil lagers a way to fight: hire soldiers to fight for you. But how can poor farmers possibly afford to pay soldiers? Let them be hungry soldiers, the sage explains, and pay them with rice...
...neat, sentimentally acid little accounts of old-hearted juveniles and middle-aged delinquents were widely cheered by the critics, eagerly bought by the customers. Still on the bestseller list after 16 weeks is A Certain Smile (TiME, Aug. 20), a thin quadrangle story about an ever-so-wise teenager, her ever-so-world-weary lover, the lover's all-understanding wife and the girl's rather sappy boy friend. In Harper's Bazaar, witty Playwright Jean Kerr (wife of New York Drama Critic Walter Kerr) gets a lot of certain laughs out of A Certain Smile...