Word: wises
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ever replied to President Joseph Fitzsimmons' quote of Don Quixote with one by Mark Twain: "Behold, the fool saith, 'Put not all thine eggs in the one basket' - which is but a manner of saying, 'Scatter your money and your attention,' but the wise man saith, 'Put all your eggs in the one basket and - watch that basket...
...Eighteen percent of all those answering the questionnaire said they believed in an "infinitely wise, omnipotent, three-person God who created the universe and who maintains an active concern for human affairs." The largest group of respondents -24%-believed in "a God about whom nothing definite can be affirmed." Only 4% flatly denied God's existence...
Barbican's architectural imagination captured public and professional critics alike. But Barbican's chairman, wise in the ways of bureaucracy, said: "Progress depends on whether there is a red light or a green light. What is important is that the lights should not be set forever at amber...
...There is an infinitely wise, omnipotent three-person God Who created the universe and Who maintains an active concern for human affairs...
...assume the only political stance that needs no defense--that of the "moderate liberal." Haughtily denouncing conservatives as "crackpots" and radicals as "fanatics," these squatters in the "middle-of-the-road" bestow their silent blessing on almost any proposal that carries the "liberal" label. Some of these proposals are wise, but others...