Word: wiseness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last night's uninterrupted dress rehearsal, there was only one high point, one performer, one reason for watching Candida: that was Miss Cass. She was always Shaw's wise, strong woman, speaking the celebrated dogma with sweetness and humor. Particularly in the mashy last act is she at top form, supplying the pace which other performers and director David Green neglected. She seemed to have thought about her lines and her part, weighing the author's intent and then blending them into a spirit and charm which is irresistible...
...Coach Loeffler was determined to keep Hot Rod from repeating that kind of performance. In the second period calmed-down Loeffler ordered his team to switch to a zone defense. It was the first time a single opponent had ever forced Loeffler's hand, but it was a wise move. Hot Rod and his Mountaineers were slowed to a walk; Gola and La Salle ran off with the game...
Besides, Churchill implied. Whitehall's ability to sway U.S. policymaking is in direct proportion to British deterrent strength. "Personally," he said, "I cannot feel that we should have much influence over [U.S.] policy or actions, wise or unwise, while we are largely dependent, as we are today, upon their protection...
...trouble with boxing's bigwigs, Rocky managed to keep himself in contention until 1952. Then, in Chicago, Sugar Ray Robinson knocked him out, and convinced him that he was through. But the man who finally turned his back on the ring was no longer the wise guttersnipe, the terror of Tenth Street. He had calmed down enough to become a TV comedian...
...other five House representatives chosen are Francis H. Duehay of Adams and Cambridge, Gerald A. Lewis of Dunster and Birmingham, Ala., Walter M. Cabot of Eliot and Dover, Mass., James J. Pates, Jr. of Lowell and Northport, N.Y., and David S. Wise of Winthrop and Cambridge...