Word: wiseness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have to promise anything to her confidential advisers? Far from breaking with her confidante Greet Hofmans, the Queen stubbornly continued to seek out and see the faith healer and all of her group. The only change made in the royal household was a minor one planned before the "three wise men" were called in for help. Meanwhile, the nation itself was in the midst of a Cabinet crisis whose solution was made virtually impossible because of the worsening situation in the palace...
...years ago Harry S. Ashmore prophetically stated in his book The Negro and the Schools: "It is here (at the local level) that the South will have to determine the future of its educational system. Wise leadership at the upper levels can help, and emotional excursions by the leaders of either race can do great harm. But in the end the new patterns will have to be hammered out across the table in thousands of scattered school districts, and they will have to be shaped to accommodate not only the needs but the prejudices of whites and Negroes to whom...
Likewise it is probably wise for a Negro not to ask for dormitory accommodations as Miss Lucy did. The more intimate the relations with Negroes, the less palatable they are to white Southerners. For a while, it is better for Negro leaders to be content with a little so that they may gain a lot. In Miss Lucy's case, they wanted everything, and lost...
...would pay off on a fixer's bet. Football ranks No. 2, well ahead of basketball, which has yet to recover from the 1951 scandals. A few bookmakers and gamblers, in fact, are not yet sure the scandals are over. The biggest bet a wise book will take on most college games...
...able, energetic President Les Faneuf, who started as Bell's special assistant 13 years ago after a rainbow career as everything from commandant of a military academy to political editor of the Buffalo Times, Bell has the kind of imaginative, production-wise executive the company needs in order to grow. But, says Chairman Bell: "No matter where I am, when an airplane flies overhead, I'm going to go outside and look at it. I don't think I'll ever get over that...