Word: wising
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that all political power resides in the people. It has never failed in its staunch advocacy for the maximum of personal freedom." He added: "In youth as in age [MacArthur is 68] there is a continuing responsibility which falls upon every citizen of the republic to ensure good and wise government...
...take no risk whatever except when conscience compels us. We should not expend any 'risk' for the sake of having a scoop, for the sake of being the 'wise guy,' for the sake of attracting attention or being entertaining. . . . We must be scrupulously careful not to confuse what is happening with what we devoutly wish may happen...
...presence of large numbers of veterans under the G.I. Bill of Rights may make it wise for the Faculty to delay temporarily any definite change, but policy discussions should start as soon as possible to allow for expression of opinion from all the student and faculty groups who will want to heard. It is never too soon to revive one of the deadest elements of Harvard's not over-lively academic liberalism...
Priests. In many of the stories, O'Connor takes a mild jab at the clergy: Father Ring, a well-meaning but not too wise busybody; Father Cassidy, a worldly sort nonplussed by a girl's blithe confession of sin ("A philosopher of 60 letting Eve, aged 19, tell him about the apple!"); and Father Foley, a tragic figure who finds himself in love with a woman ("He sat by the fire wondering what his own life might have been with a girl like that, all furs and scents and laughter...
...tablet as outlined in the new suggestion, is first of all, nearer financial reason at $60,000 than the former $200,000 figure. A list of the war dead will in any case be a part of any memorial, and the location in the Memorial Church has seemed wise to many alumni...