Word: wiseness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...only councilor to vote against the proposal, Mrs. Pearl K. Wise, objected that it was "unfair" for the Council to go on record for any candidate. "It means we are urging the voters of Cambridge to support our choice," she stated...
Though at first glance Turgenev's people often seem like Chekhov's, Turgenev has a rather different angle of vision and a different art. If no more wise than Chekhov, he is more wordly-wise and more ironic. Much of A Month is leisure-class social comedy, in which sheer ennui acts as a stimulant and the yawn is father to the kiss. Where Chekhov's people bestir themselves too little or too late, Turgenev's seem overready; just because the landscape is flat or the drawing room tedious, they grasp at situations and embroider them...
...doctor to relax in the least degree his efforts to maintain life means that the question of when to stop fighting will arise to plague him every time he undertakes the care of an incurable cancer patient ... Where can anyone, no matter how wise, draw the line?" There is always the chance that "spontaneous remission," a rare inexplicable halt to tumor growth, may restore the cancer patient to health. Moreover, says Cameron, the possibility always exists of a timely cure for the patient's case of cancer. "The humane course is to hold on to such a hope, slender...
During the presidential campaign of 1956, in the area of domestic policy both parties will undoubtedly support with every evidence of enthusiasm a federal school aid program, a federal highway program, expended social security, further slum clearance, a balanced budget, adequate military defense, the wise development of our natural resources, civil rights, and improved assistance for our farmers. They will disagree at least, only on the magnitude of these programs, the speed with which they are implemented, and the manner of their administration...
...workers had come to see that they won pay raises under the free unions. Nor did they lose man-hours and pay packets on wasteful strikes (which were reduced by 90% in 1955). The ability of the free unions to stand on the record was made easier by the wise policy of the Fiat works management, which has been financing new homes for the company's workers, and pays nearly 80% of all Fiat workers more than the contract minimum...