Word: wising
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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People do vote by custom or habit, it is true, but they may get wise to a lawyer's bag of tricks...
Discreetly, the British permitted meetings. Promptly, King Vittorio Emanuele and Marshal Badoglio and even Sicilian-born World War I Premier Vittorio Orlando jumped to their microphones to plead with Sicilians to remember their political ties. In April Badoglio thought it wise to appear in person, but the agitation continued. To many Sicilians, a snug little island kingdom nestled against the protecting ribs of the British lion looked good...
Vice Admiral Marc A. Mitscher, wizened, air-wise, U.S. Navy carrier task-force commander in the Pacific, got a Navy bronze star at his advance base in the Marshalls from CINCPAC Admiral Chester W. Nimitz. Said Nimitz: "Ninety-one years ago a naval officer opened up the ports of Japan, and now another officer is doing his damndest to close them...
...Douglas Aircraft's Chicago plant, the "wise guys" among the 20,000 employes were scurrying for new jobs. Some had already left: a layout artist switched to an aviation magazine; a riveter went to Inland Steel. To stop the flight, Douglas let word get out that it has a mountain of postwar orders locked up in the safe. But the exodus went...
...Roosevelt's life from the viewpoint of an amateur and humane psychoanalyst. What emerges is a friendly and convincing portrait of a man whose paramount drives are a love of people and excitement, a dislike of friction and contradiction. He is "a good but not a very wise man; vain, captious, overconfident and warmhearted; no more honest than most, but friendlier than the average; courageous but at the same time . . . not totally without a certain somewhat meretricious grandeur...