Word: wiseness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Schlesinger praised the president for his "wise and strong leadership in these shadowed weeks since Nov. 22...you can count on me for any assistance I can render in forthcoming presidential campaigns...
Even the major companies have found it wise to syndicate offshore. Shell, Humble and Standard of California are the three biggest offshore explorers, but each has entered partnerships besides maintaining a solo operation. The fourth-biggest operation, C.A.T.C., is a syndicate formed by Continental, Atlantic, Tidewater and Cities Service; since 1953 it has had 300 successful completions in 600 attempts. But C.A.T.C. has also spent $497 million, climbed out of a sea of red only...
...MOVE-Wise, 50 West 57th. Throwing switches and turning on paintings is an esthetically cold, if ingenious, game, but a dozen U.S. and European artists amuse themselves anyway by applying physics to esthetics. Things like Len Lye's tingling, kinetic steel Fountain and Agam's movable painting, Le Grand Cercle. Through...
...Minister Lai Bahadur Shastri, and Finance Minister Morarji Desai -to resign, ostensibly to reorganize the party and revitalize its strength among the masses. But it is generally felt that Nehru actually intended the move as a ruse to shake out of the Cabinet all potential contenders for his post. Wise to the scheme, the ousted ministers set about building up personal followings for a succession fight...
...unbending patriarch of Baltimore, and acutely conscious of the dignity and the responsibilities of venerable old age. Like a wise old uncle exercising his seniority, it tells Baltimoreans what to do, and Baltimoreans apparently listen. Faced with a perplexing maze of 20 municipal bond issues in a 1962 election, most voters clipped a Sun editorial, took it to the polls, and followed the paper's recommendations to the letter. The Sun demands a high order of intelligence from its readers. Stories are written not to entertain but to inform; text is never displaced for purely cosmetic considerations...