Word: wises
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...special committee to review the Radcliffe honor system has been formed, President Wilbur K. Jordan has announced. "There is no particular crisis," President Jordan said, "but it seems wise to review...
...other hand, Dulles is humble enough to recognize, as he told the U.N. last month, that the U.S. has "no monopoly of wisdom or virtue." He is against starting a "holy war" to extirpate Communism. And he is fully aware that sound morals do not necessarily lead to wise policies. But he believes that where a nation holds a trusteeship against an organized, clearly recognizable evil, as the U.S. does, successful, realistic policy takes on a positive moral value...
...turned out, such advance calculations underrated the Yankees, and a. clownish-wise man named Casey Stengel, at 63 the most successful manager in baseball history. Manager Stengel and his Yankees were in no mood for a change; they were after a record fifth World Championship in a row. When the series ended this week, Stengel & Co. had their record...
...believe that any members of the [council] staff are dishonest, disloyal, subversive, proCommunist, or other than conscientious and sincere Christians." But at the same time the committee decided that the council had been getting itself (and Congregationalism) out on the limbs of politics more often than was necessary or wise...
...caught fire, was not abandoning his own four-month-old splinter political party: it will be in a coalition with Magsaysay's Nacionalistas, and if the coalition wins, will share in the spoils (presumably Romulo would be reappointed Ambassador to the U.S.). Said Romulo: "They say a wise captain doesn't take his ship through a storm, but makes a detour. I am making a detour...