Word: wiseness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Federal Reserve, as is its custom, waited until the stock markets closed on Thursday to announce the new rate. The move was wise. Already that day, on news of the growing gold crisis, the Dow-Jones industrial average had fallen 11.32 points for its sharpest drop in 18 months; on the New York Stock Exchange, declines in stock prices outnumbered gains by 10 to 1. Next day, while London's market was shut down, New York opened on schedule, and in an equally busy day the industrials regained half of what they had lost. Most of the activity...
...seniors who will not make the trip South, Bo Jones and squash captain Rick Sterne, could eventually slip into the starting lineup. Jones has not played competitive tennis for Harvard since his freshman year, but Barnaby trusts him to regain his old form. Two sophomores, Larry Terrell and Eric Wise, also have a chance to make the first...
While Gore admits that he "treasures" his seat in the Senate, he seems to keep his importance in perspective. When Master Gill introduced him to a Leverett House audience as a "wise, humane, and dedicated legislator," he smiled at the hyperbole. But the audience accepted it, and they suspected that...
Bich, reached this week at his embassy, did not recollect the visit in the same way as Long. He described the visit as a "reasonably cordial" one, adding "Even if policy-wise we might disagree, that does not sour our relationship." Bich emphatically denied that any threats had been made against the students...
...state, such experiences seemed the exception. Many canvassers have found a fairly wide-pread lack of confidence among New Hampshire voters in President Johnson and a genuine desire to know about all candidates. They feel that a lot of people are being reached and expressing their thoughts who other wise would probably not have gone to the polls...