Word: wiseness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...moving spirit behind this worldly-wise enterprise is Sister Benedita Idefelt, 43, a Catholic nun from Finland, who now teaches school in the Brazilian town of Juiz de Fora. In Cristo Total, Sister Benedita has retold the Catholic devotion of the Stations of the Cross, taking bold liberties with the story...
...Garrison Villard, who later edited the Nation for 15 years, to write a "Call to Action" that led directly to the formation of the N.A.A.C.P. Among those who issued the call on Lincoln's Birthday 1909 were Professor John Dewey, William Lloyd Garrison, Jane Addams, Rabbi Stephen S. Wise and Lincoln Steffens...
Smarter Crooks. When it comes to solving crime, it is still elementary to call in Scotland Yard. Last week, led by such wise old bluebottles as Commander George Hatherill, 65, the Yard's dean of sleuths, who speaks eight languages and has solved 17 murders, Yard men investigating the Great Buckinghamshire Train Robbery succeeded in rounding up nine suspects, recovered $761,367 of the $7,000,000 loot. Also on hand were Ernest Millen, boss of the Flying Squad, alias the Heavy Mob, whose 100-odd sleuths know more about the underworld than Dante; and the Terrible Twins...
...Thailand and Laos, it is extremely rude to display the sole of the foot or to sit with legs crossed. "It is wise, physically as well as metaphorically, to keep both feet on the ground...
...addition to a careful study of the relative atomic arsenals of the signatories and the possible diplomatic effects of the treaty, the Senate would be wise to consider another set of statistics, released Saturday by the Public Health Service. According to the Service's measurements, the amount of strontium 90 in the average litre of milk in this country was twice as great last May as in May 1962. Federal Radiation Council scientists estimate that the level of radiation was even higher for June and July. This sharp increase in radioactivity in the atmosphere is a direct result...