Word: wiseness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fashioned slugging, Nixon and Humphrey reserved their heaviest efforts for television. Both sides planned a crescendo of commercials and broadcast exposure for the candidates during the last two days before the vote. The expenditure of millions for radio and TV time up to the last possible moment was probably wise tactics. It was the kind of campaign in which many voters withheld a final decision until actually confronted with the ballot...
Flying Saucers. South Viet Nam's housewives have a proverb that "a wise woman makes a mandarin out of her husband," and publicly Vietnamese women are usually models of submissiveness. At home, though, the Vietnamese wife is known as the "minister of the interior," while her husband is the "foreign minister." In practice, that means that he brings his paychecks home to her and she dispenses pocket money to him. She pays all the big bills. If they eat out, it is generally the wife who discreetly picks up the restaurant tab. When she throws a temper tantrum...
...Theoretically, this screen biography of Lawrence holds the most powerful combination of ingredients available without a doctor's prescription: the story of the brightest star of the musical theater; songs by Cole Porter, Gershwin, Coward; Julie Andrews in the title role; all under the direction of Robert Wise, who made such box-office hits as The Sound of Music and West Side Story. Actually, the production is a hollow, frantic caricature-The Character Assassination of Gertrude Lawrence as Performed by the Inmates of Madame Tussaud...
...expect an additional $15 billion per year in revenues from the growth of the economy. Through wise allocation of resources we can avoid cutbacks in existing social programs...
...extend and intensify" its braking pressure. For how long? Possibly for one or two years, during which profits would suffer and unemployment would rise from its current 15-year low of 3½% to 4½% or even 5½%. That price, said Lazarus, might be "neither politically wise nor socially acceptable...