Word: wiseness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...toward proving "that some change in the understanding that the public has of the Republican Party is necessary." Would he overcome criticism heard in his first term that he failed to seize personal leadership in working with his party in Congress? With a wisp of exasperation, Ike diagrammed a wise man's views on leadership. "I am not one of the desk-pounding type that likes to stick out his jaw and look like he is bossing the show. I would far rather get behind and, recognizing the frailties and the requirements of human nature, I would rather...
...Joyous Daybreak." The next night 10,000 Negroes jammed two of Montgomery's largest churches and adjacent streets to savor their triumph. Appearing before each group in turn was the spiritual architect of that triumph, the Rev. Dr. King. He was too wise to be triumphant; he read to each congregation a statement that should loom large in the Negro's long, patient fight for equality...
...plays any role, it was just to start a fight. If Israel hadn't felt the support of Britain, France and others, the Arabs would have been able to box her ears and she would have remained at peace. I think the British and French will be wise enough to withdraw their forces, and then Egypt will emerge stronger than ever...
...spoken as correctly. Instead Nagy, yielding to the pressure of his people (and perhaps his conscience) had declared for neutrality, had denounced the Warsaw Pact and demanded the withdrawal of Soviet troops. Nagy had committed the cardinal crime of admitting non-Communists to his government. The good Gomulka, made wise by subsequent events in Hungary, had emphasized "accord" with the Soviet Union, had reaffirmed the Warsaw Pact and was rebuilding his government on strictly Communist lines. As they all drove off together in big black limousines, Kremlin cordiality seemed to promise a set of formulas aimed to satisfy Polish aspirations...
Health Association-its value just upped from $2,500 to $5,000-as an "exemplar par excellence of the 'wellbeing of mankind throughout the world,' public-health statesman, influential medical educator, wise counselor and friend...