Word: wiseness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...President Lyndon Johnson was wise in his selection of the Minnesotan for the vice-presidential spot [Sept. 4]; he put the awesome responsibility in the hands of a man who sees the problems of this age not as group against group, race against race, section against section, but rather, and more correctly, as stability v. extremism...
VATICAN. The Pietāa, bathed in blue light, is a major attraction, though somewhat diminished by the cold setting and a crowd-hustling moving sidewalk. Cognoscenti who have seen Michelangelo's masterpiece glowing like old ivory in the natural light of St. Peter's might be wise to remember it that...
...wise mother who calls her five-year-old daughter's artificial hand "the hooker," and wants the child to accept it as that. See MEDICINE, Giving Hope...
...could be that boy's trainer," Johnson once remarked of Humphrey. Now, realizing that Humphrey was ready to accept some training, Johnson sought out the Minnesotan. "Hubert," he said, "I want you to meet the people around here who count." Humphrey took to talking with Georgia's wise old Senator Walter George, who had been among the first to scorn Hubert as an upstart. Senate veterans still remember how Humphrey worked to win George's respect, constantly asking questions and seeking advice from the old man. Before too long, George was telling his colleagues that young Humphrey...
...half eye's compactness in the pocket, its lightness on the nose, the way it allows women to apply eye makeup and see what they're doing. Deep down, though, half-spec wearers know that the main reason they wear them is the expression -quizzical, benign, worldly-wise-that they impart to even the most pudding-faced peerer...