Word: wiseness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...trying to measure what the public wants, the pollsters argue that a wise politician can trust his own instincts about 75% of the time, but a sound poll will give him a correct reading 90% of the time. That makes a 10% margin of error-and there is no guarantee that, in fact, the margin is not apt to be much larger. Thus the powerful polls can help democracy triumph, or at least muddle through-as long as the politicians and the public remember the margin of error and refuse to be hypnotized by the augurs...
...importance; though mortally wounded, he smashed it against a tree rather than let it fall into the hands of the enemy. He won a posthumous Medal of Honor for his performance on that night patrol. Since then, thousands of starlight scopes have been shipped to Viet Nam; jungle-wise infantrymen are so impressed by their versatility that they use almost any G.I. dodge to pick up extra scopes for their outfits...
...bare 520 ft., landings at 65 m.p.h. All in all, the Islander offers only one frill; though one big engine would theoretically offer reliability enough, the plane has two 260-h.p. Lycoming engines to allow for the customer confidence factor. Measured by customer response, that was a wise decision...
...that it bears a certain resemblance to a political campaign. The original favorite was Ogden Phipps's Vitriolic, last year's two-year-old champion and winner of $429,896, who has since developed weak knees and will sit out the race. Hirsch Jacobs' Wise Exchange made a good showing in the primaries, winning two big winter stakes in Florida, but he is footsore from his strenuous campaign (27 races in two years) and has also been scratched. There is no shortage of favorite sons: Derby officials predict a field of 17 horses, most of whose owners...
...cast with a firm hand, but either because the hand was too firm or because the cast was too inexperienced, the effect is of posing rather than acting. Valentine Callahan is too much the effusive matron, Richard Deutsch too much the urbane globetrotter, Howard Beale altogether too much the wise but enigmatic doctor. It is as though everyone is expecting a photographer to take his picture at any moment, and by God, he's not going to be caught looking out of character when the flashbulb goes...