Word: wiseness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What made the students and workers wise in their time and situation was not alone the example of Hungary. They also had a belief in a man, once disgraced and imprisoned, almost forgotten a year ago, whose firm defiance of the Russians had shot him up through the crumbling Communist apparatus to a position of national hero. In Wladyslaw Gomulka many Poles feel that they found a leader before it was too late...
...talks. The Rev. Herbert Garner of Battle Creek's First Presbyterian Church begins his messages with commands such as "Face Issues!" "Don't worry!" "Keep your temper!" Sample message: "Cheer up: the world needs people who are cheerful as much as it needs anything! Some are wise, some wealthy, skillful or famous. But all of us can be cheerful! It doesn't cost anything; in fact, it pays big dividends...
...discovery, made in 1953, caused little stir until a fortnight ago when Lindley's publicity-wise Shell Petroleum distributor got the press interested. Reporters and scholars flocked to the site. Sir Albert Richardson, president of the Royal Academy, traveled down to view the discovery, enthusiastically pronounced the paintings "unique." Said Egmont Lind, art restorer of Denmark's National Museum: "They are the only early wall paintings I have seen in England that have not been touched, apart from the deliberate disfigurement since the day they were painted...
...moderates. In this situation, a collective leadership was unquestionably the best the Tories could hope for. It was not yet Butler's time for power, and he knew it. "It has been brought to my attention that a certain degree of modesty in my present position would be wise," he told Commons wryly. "During the Prime Minister's absence. I hope that the House will accept it from me that the only words I use are those of the responsibility of a collective and united government...
Marcelino (Charmartín; U.M.P.O.). In the 13th century after Christ, King Alfonso X of Castile and Leon, by his courtiers called "The Wise." commanded that a chronicle be made of all the miracles that in all times had occurred within the limits of his realm. It was done; and among the marvels that the scholars heard and dutifully set down was the story of Marcelino...