Word: wising
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Major's fiancee; and some of it is slapstick: the chase through the train to escape the conductors, her contortions to stop the Major's nosebleed with a cold towel. But more important and more satisfying are the take-offs on sophistication, the Veronica Lake fad, the girl-wise cadets, and the whole portrayal of the buffaloed Major Kirby...
...move forward to extend this wise and benevolent policy to another potentially valuable and highly deserving group in our midst. There are in America hundreds of thousands of aliens of German origin, whose loyalty to our cause is intense and unequivocal. Many of them have better reason to loathe the Nazis and their criminal accomplices than our most patriotic citizens can ever know. They have felt the lash of the Gestapo and the agonies of the concentration camp; they have been despoiled of loved ones, possessions, home, country and citizenship. These people are pledged by every sacred oath, by every...
...Sage. The man who scrutinized the R.A.F.'s performance with the deepest satisfaction was General Alexander's companion in Cairo, the quizzical Tedder, who in England is accounted one of the wise men of aviation...
...Kuzma baby says it's so doesn't mean a thing to a guy as Wise as I am," said the Sage of the Age as he huddled in a cattle car on his way to the Greene land of Michigan...
Machinery for the new cooperation is provided by the industry's own Automotive Council for War Production (Automotive Council for Air Defense, until Pearl Harbor)-since committees of tool-wise master mechanics, production men from the various companies solve day-today problems right in each other's shops...