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Word: wiseness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...State Department official carefully. Returning from Saigon to report to Dwight Eisenhower, the President's special envoy, General J. Lawton Collins, would only say that "We are behind the legal government of Viet Nam," and he didn't mention Premier Ngo Dinh Diem. The French government, wise in such subtleties of omission, concluded that General Collins had perhaps given way to them, and was recommending Diem's replacement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH VIET NAM: Tremors from Washington | 5/2/1955 | See Source »

...scenes as well as ably directing the production. It would be quite impossible to distill Joyce's monolith into two hours of speech and song and still retain all the thematic complexities, with their continual restatement in terms of almost everything in myth and history. Miss Manning has been wise in not attempting this, for the result could only be tedious and disastrously confusing. Her arrangement retains a circular form, opening and closing with the members of the wake gathered about the omnipresent coffin-cradle of Finnegan. She has made Shem the Penman spokesman for her piece, and although...

Author: By John A. Pope, | Title: Finnegans Wake | 4/28/1955 | See Source »

...wanting its dam or irrigation ditch and every pressure group demanding its subsidy, the national debt has risen to some $250 billion. Under the present law, the President has no means of checking Congressional demands. Even when legislators are not under political pressure, they are usually unable to make wise budget decisions because of the difficulty of estimating the relative importance of various appropriations. Each year a number of appropriations bills are passed, and the total expenditure is not entirely clear. Among the many proposals to correct this situation, Senator Byrd's two bills offer the best solution--an omnibus...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Measure for Measure | 4/27/1955 | See Source »

Like a doctor who finds a patient in good health but warns him against his tendency to overeat, some of the nation's economists have concluded that U.S. industry would be wise to curb its boundless appetite. The Federal Reserve Board, noting that business borrowings for expansion are heavier than they have been since 1953, decided the time had come to apply a mild brake before the boom gets out of hand. The brake: a boost in the rediscount rate from 1½ to 1¾ Since this is the rate at which member banks borrow from the Federal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Braking Time? | 4/25/1955 | See Source »

...normal, strong, well-adjusted mind will . . . say, 'God has forgiven me, I have done everything I can to make this matter right, it's in the past, it's washed out, it's all over and done . . .' I sometimes think it was a very wise procedure in the mind of the Creator when He invented nighttime. The darkness comes down and blots out everything that has happened during the day. Then, after the nighttime has passed, a new day dawns, and every day is a fresh beginning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Questions & Answers | 4/18/1955 | See Source »

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