Word: wising
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Senator Wagner had introduced such a resolution before, 32 days after Pearl Harbor. But that time he let the idea die, a trial balloon collapsed and brought to earth. This time he was determined to see it through. No one wise in the ways of Washington believed that he would take such a stand unless his feet were on solid White House ground...
...Senate, up rose Alabama's bald, cotton-wise John H. Bankhead, to propose a Congressional examination of the Army goals. Said John Bankhead...
...harassed Raj, the action was belatedly graceful and politically wise. For the Congress it was a great moral victory. Bhansali drank a glass of msambi juice to break his fast. Crowds of Hindus garlanded his gaunt neck with flowers...
Turkish Worries. Across the silvery, snakelike Bosporus, Ankara watched anxiously. It was clear that Germany had lost the initiative, but beyond that hazy problems loomed: If widespread revolutions broke out in the Balkans it might be wise for Turkey to establish order in the name of the Allies, risk war against Germany. Allied and Axis diplomats in Ankara last week noted that Ambassador Franz von Papen had gone to Berlin to confer with Adolf Hitler...
...maker of that Jap-killing torpedo director was no oldtime munitions outfit, no veteran precision manufacturer, no war-wise Naval ordnance plant. It was energetic, ingenious General Mills Inc., which before the war was a peaceful flour miller (Gold Medal, Bisquick, Wheaties). But last week General Mills was running a huge Naval fire control plant, was hard at work turning out complicated gunsights, torpedo directors, smoke-screen gadgets, telescope and periscope prisms...