Word: wiseness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...year ended, and the Class of '31 now considered itself worldly-wise enough to make the big jump out of the lower echelons. It had been good, it reflected, but it would, doubtless, be better...
...Vision deals with the apocalyptic explosion of a superbomb. Its ghostly passage across the sky startles the animal world. A leopard releases a captured doe, and both cower deep in the underbrush. In the city, men, women and children sleep, while their "leaders and wise men" anxiously scan the heavens, "but it was too late." There is a shudder of light and, in all the raised faces, eyes melt in their sockets...
...years of sensitive diplomatic assignments-Rome, Paris, Moscow, Madrid, London, Rio de Janeiro-U.S. Career Diplomat James Clement Dunn won wide respect as an urbane, wise, influential foreign-service officer. As U.S. Ambassador to Italy (1946-52), he merited the State Department's Distinguished Service Award for helping defeat the Communists in the critical 1948 elections (partially by dramatizing U.S. aid). As Ambassador to Spain (1953-55), he helped develop the new U.S. policy of good relations with Franco. Moving on to booming Brazil in February 1955, he concentrated on touring remote jungles and backwaters by jeep, plane...
...advised, the relation would be maintained during the later College year; but the primary function of the adviser was no give counsel and encouragement to the newcomer, bewildered perhaps by the sudden freedom of College life, the multiplicity of fresh interests, and the complexity of his first problem--the wise selection of studies...
...charm of the cartoons, which are animated by the UFA ("Mr. Magoo") studios, lies in the bungling earnestness with which the bottle-bald brothers lampoon the standard TV sales talk, e.g., with slogans such as "Throat-wise, it's delicious.'' Plotwise, the fictional Piel boys, whose lines are spoken by radio's Bob (Elliott) and Ray (Goulding), are a study in opposites. Pint-sized Bert is a gabby, obnoxious supersalesman who shouts his commercials, scolds the audience and continually squelches Stringbean Harry. After a few seconds of bumptious Bert, viewers feel so sorry for well-meaning...