Word: wiseness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pleasant one. The Court evidently hopes that under this last decree, continual, if restrained, federal prodding will force segregation into retirement. With part of the South claiming that it is prepared to go to any lengths to break or evade the law, the decision is probably a wise...
...Alexander Nevsky made 800 years ago may have been made by Zhukov to save Moscow, but Nevsky meant it for all of Russia and the lands he took. The master plan of the Soviet Union dictators calls for the domination of the entire world, and it is a wise leader in the free countries who never loses sight of that plan. And time is on Russia's side...
...last analysis, however, the insistence on the right of free alliance is wise because it is the policy of the Adenauer government. It is important to remember that Germany is now a sovereign nation which can make its own deals. While the Western nations continue to exert strong political, diplomatic and economic pressures on Germany, in the long run it can maintain an alliance with Germany only by paying strict attention to the policy if its government. At the moment, Adenauer is uncompromisingly opposed to neutralization...
...Germany to their national frontiers" - suggesting that the Red army might pull back to Russia, not Poland, if the U.S. forces pulled back to the U.S., not France; 4) "dismantling of military bases on foreign territories," e.g., U.S. bases in Europe, North Africa and in the Pacific; 5) atom-wise states to share know-how and atomic materials with other states, for peaceful use; 6) Far Eastern settlement on the basis of "sovereignty and territorial integrity" between the countries concerned; 7) elimination of trade discrimination, i.e., free export of strategic materials...
...diocese in Carthage that for Christianity's first thousand years or so, the making of a saint was a purely local matter, left in the hands of the bishop. In the Roman Catholic Church, bishops lost this right in 1634, a century after the Reformation.* It would be wise and welcome, thought Bishop Welles, to revive this practice, and he suggested a commission to study the "heroic sanctity" of two Missouri candidates for canonization...