Word: wiseness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...domestic legislation. Ike reread his list of "must" bills, which he had first read to the reporters last June (TIME, July 11). Of the 13 items on the list, he said. Congress had enacted only four, "and some of those, in my opinion, with provisions that were not wise." Of the remaining nine, he said, four unpassed bills were "absolutely vital": school construction, the health bill, the highway program and the water-resources bill. He planned, said Ike, to push these measures very emphatically as soon as Congress reconvenes. ¶Administered the oath of office to Harold E. Stassen...
...seem to see that Moral Re-Armament ... is a very wise investment for any government in the free world. Your U.S. re-education program after the war told us about great Americans like Lincoln and Jefferson, but I did not find a clue then . . . When I was put in an Allied jail as a Hitler Youth leader-I celebrated my 19th birthday there-it did not help much either. I'll always be grateful for the Marshall Plan aid because it saved my little brother's life and millions of Germans from starvation. But by giving...
...Queen of Sheba's Nightmare is a worldly-wise little story in which the Queen is persuaded by Satan that the rapturous "Song" that King Solomon has just sung to her is the same one he has sung to every other woman. This fable of woman's mingled love and suspicion of flattery makes one wish that Author Russell's artistic powers were up to the standard of his intelligence. The moral (for ladies only): Better be fooled by a man than put wise by the Devil...
...leaving him safe while his friends were swept 1,000 ft. down the mountain. Peter Smith, 13, of Paoli, Pa., managed to leap to one side, and was saved. "When it passed, I unwound the rope, which had slid around my neck, almost choking me. I heard Wil lie Wise yelling for help, and went over to him. There wasn't much I could...
...feel that the Supreme Court decision was a wise one. But we are offended by some people who try to tell us how to solve our problems-people who come from sections of the country where segregation is unlawful but exists in just as vicious a form as anywhere in the South...