Word: wising
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...express surprise over the convention-end revelation that the Truman alternative alone could come near to satisfying ADA. What did crop into the open without warning was the overwhelming general unrest about the Administration drift toward a conservative orientation. Two viewpoints concerning strategy clashed: one holding that explicit platform-wise recognition of Truman's shortness on liberalism would gather votes for Wallace, another insisting that a whitewash inevitably spelled further Presidential slaps to the face of the Left. The issue was fought out in sessions of the political policy drafting committee. Careerist Democrats Paul Porter (ex-OPA chief) and Hubert...
...when his best bull brought only $6,100 at his annual sale last week. Last year his top animal fetched $25,000. Montana's "Wheat King," Thomas Campbell, who said three months ago that he was holding all of his 610,000 bushels, said last week that the wise farmer would still hold on; there might be a pickup in prices because demand was still great. Wisely or not, most grain farmers were holding...
...disrupt the deal. But Masterson had another story. He charged that Kaiser-Frazer profits were finding "their way into the pockets of Kaiser and Frazer personally [via parts companies and other agencies personally owned by them] and not to the stockholders." He said the accounting he demanded would "wise up the whole country about Mr. Kaiser...
...These qualities constitute a way of life which of course does not make wise men from foolish, or good men from wicked, but which has beauty and which seems singularly suited to man's estate on earth...
America's capacity to lead depends on its faculty to produce wise and effective leaders, its success in retaining unity at home, and its ability as a people to continue to believe in the ideals which have motivated the past and point the way toward the future, President Conant asserted last night at a dinner of the Economic Club of Chicago...