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Word: wiseness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...other two doubles matches were played by second-string men. The Crimson's Butch Kawakami and Bill Ball were defeated, 10-12, while Erich Wise and Dick Rosenthal lost their match...

Author: By Samuel Z. Goldhaber, | Title: Tennis Team Beats M.I.T. 7-2; Washauer, Jarvis Win Handily | 4/10/1969 | See Source »

...United Nations building back from her visit to New York and gave it to the school. She told us how beautiful the building was, and how wonderful it was that nations were learning to work their problems out by talking rather than fighting with each other, and what a wise and good man the Secretary-General was. She couldn't quite pronounce his name...

Author: By Jerald R. Gerst, | Title: Hammarskjold | 4/8/1969 | See Source »

...some high school kids inscribed: "Our cops are tops! With luv to the fuzz-Love-Peace-Have a successful love-in." So what's this love bit about? Well,Spreen explained, he had this idea for a 100-day love-in. For 100 days, he wanted all the wise guys to lay off the cops and give him a chance to make some changes. He said that if he had to pick one thing that could really solve the crime problem it would be love. Great, but what does it mean? Well, says Spreen, "if you care about your...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: From Detroit, with Love | 3/28/1969 | See Source »

...wise move. The script by Herman Raucher and Newley never graduates to the sophomoric. Female characters are given Ian Fleming labels with a touch of Li'l Abner: Polyester Poontang, Miss Maidenhead Fern, Trampolena Whambang and Miss Hope Climax. Jokes consist of lethal single entendres like "Heironymus lays them in the aisles," or Berle's remark as he rows a boat on a sandy beach: "I haven't passed water in three days." Between them, Newley rants some chants that are mislabeled songs, appears more naked than his victims, and plots along in the hope that some...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: l-Piece | 3/28/1969 | See Source »

...have linked him with Actress Lauren Bacall. At the very mention, his lips curl dourly: "I hardly even know the woman." He calls such chitchat "degrading" and again blames it on the star system resulting from "one man or two men appearing every day in the role of all-wise, all-knowing journalistic supermen. It is absurd." So absurd, he said in a Columbia University lecture honoring Elmer Davis, "that it may be that Huntley and Cronkite and I and a few others are the last of a type." That was in 1966. With the Huntley-Brinkley Report as profitable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Mr. Brinkley Goes to New York | 3/14/1969 | See Source »

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