Word: wiseness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Councilor Pearl K. Wise agreed with Vellucci that "Harvard should be prevailed upon to find adequate parking facilities for its students and employees." But her suggestion that parking on Brattle and Mt. Auburn Streets be restricted to Cambridge residents between 6 and 10 a.m. met with opposition from Chief of Police Patrick F. Ready, a witness at the proceedings...
...make friends widely, you will be interesting. If you gossip, you will be slandered; if you mind your own business, you will be liked. If you act like a boor, you will be despised; if you act like a human being, you will be respected. If you spurn wisdom, wise people will spurn you; if you seek wisdom, they will seek you. If you adopt a pose of boredom, you will be a bore; if you show vitality, you will be alive. If you spend your free time playing bridge, you will be a good bridge player; if you spend...
...previous twenty years blocking every major social advance, he seemed like a quarterback at the mercy of his own old guard: he wanted to break through and win, but he didn't call any plays of his own. He endorsed all Republicans, including Senator McCarthy; he decided it was wise not to speak up in General Marshall's defense; he called TVA a form of "Creeping socialism;" he came to an entente cordiale with Senator Taft; he accused the Truman Administration of harboring those three villains, Corruption, Communism, and Controls; and he promised, dramatically, to "go to Korea...
...public appearance of the week was billed by the White House as "nonpolitical"; as things turned out, he could hardly have appeared in a more favorable light than before the 34,479 jammed into Brooklyn's Ebbets Field for the first game of the World Series. With baseball-wise enthusiasm Ike helped root the Dodgers home to a 6-3 victory over the New York Yankees. As he left the park, the friendly crowd reciprocated with roars of applause...
Juliana's renewed obstinacy prompted two of her three wise men to protest that she had gone back on her word, and this in turn so angered the Queen that she threatened to broadcast her version of the story to her subjects. When pro tern Premier Willem Drees heard of this, he told Juliana bluntly that he had given orders to broadcasting authorities not to permit the Queen to go on the air. Meanwhile, far from fulfilling his ordained role in the masquerade of renewed connubiality, Prince Bernhard, the Queen's husband, made less and less effort...