Word: wiseness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...President's praise of dear friends has never been parsimonious, but the plaudits he has showered on W. (for William) Marvin Watson have been extravagant even by Johnson's hyperbolic standards. "The most efficient man I've ever known," the President once said. "As wise as my father, as gentle as my mother, as loyal to my side as Lady Bird," he observed on another occasion. And last week, in announcing Watson's nomination to succeed Lawrence O'Brien as Postmaster General, Johnson said that "it will take at least two good men" to replace...
...Parker Wise started the Crimson rolling when he took a Tufts penalty on the ten yard line and ran it in for a three point try early in the first half. Sione Tupouniua then added another three point try from the 15 year line, and Joe Daly made both two point conversions to put the team ahead 10-0 at half time...
...Oxford and Marty Flusser catured the number two doubles match. After trailing 5-2, 40-love in the third set Levin and Jarvis displayed fantastic clutch tennis and almost pulled out a victory. The battle was deadlocked at six games apiece when it ended. At number three doubles, Eric Wise and Clarke Kawakami blew two match points and finally settled for draw...
...Wisconsin, the wise political bettor keeps his wallet shut. It is the state that produced both the La-Follettes and Joe McCarthy, where the traditionally Republican electorate sends liberal Democrats to Con gress, where the Progressive movement is still a living memory, and where George Wallace captured one-third of the Democratic presidential-primary vote...
...students were wise in relinquishing their demand that Nabrit resign. Many outside the University had pressured student leaders to insist on the resignation, but in the end the students settled on their most viable demands including the creation of a student judiciary committee, the dropping of disciplinary action against student, and important curriculum changes...