Word: wiseness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...important callers moved in and out of the Gettysburg office, where two-inch, bulletproof glass in heavy steel frames had just been placed over the windows. Marion Folsom, Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, and Budget Director Rowland Hughes went in to talk about the HEW budget. Massachusetts' wise, cowlicked Representative Joe Martin, 71, Republican leader of the House, and California's pin-neat, trim (down 25 Ibs. to 208) William Knowland, minority leader of the Senate, went in for separate conferences on legislation, with incidental attention to politics. Each talked to the President about what Martin called...
...Ring-wise fight fans took it for granted that Welterweight Champion Carmen Basilio would have a rough night at the Boston Garden. If Challenger Tony DeMarco stayed on his feet for 15 rounds-so the speculation went-home-town officials would give him the title. All afternoon before the bout, odds on the champ dropped accordingly. By fight time, the price was 6 to 5. Basilio's handlers filed an angry beef with the Massachusetts Boxing Commission. "What gives?" wailed Co-Manager Johnny de John. "My boy is getting a bum deal...
...Wise Decision. For the better part of his long career, George Halas has been following a football with the same furious enthusiasm. For a short time after he graduated from the University of Illinois in 1918, he seemed well on his way to becoming a big-league baseball player. He signed with the Yankees in 1919, and was slated to become their regular rightfielder. Then he broke his leg running out a spring-training triple. While Halas mended, the Yanks made do with an ex-pitcher named George Herman Ruth. Halas watched his substitute play and wisely decided that...
...khaki pants, Hunter Kefauver met newsmen with his feat in his mouth, neatly tied the story in with his White House yearnings: "If I get down and start seeking [the presidential nomination], I hope I have that same sort of telescopic lens." After reading some of his witty, wise verses and quoting from his autobiographical i-a series of non-lectures, aging (61) Poet e. e. cummings, a solo performer in a Washington art gallery, was asked about the mystery of his aversion to capital letters. Said he precisely: "i use capitals ONLY for emphasiis. after all, that...
...Faculty's decision, in rerospect, was a wise one. Despite the fanatical enthusiasm of a small group, Esperanto never really caught on either in the Western Hemisphere or in Europe. Some 200 publications tried using it; all but six failed to survive...