Word: wising
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...unhurried as a good rewrite-man, she filled short sheets of copy paper in longhand which were snatched away for typing and setting. In a few sentences, she caught the mood of a memorable day: "It might seem folly to have a royal wedding in winter, but it was wise enough. The people are tired of sadness, they need a party; they are tired of hate, they need to think of love; they are tired of evil, they need to think of goodness." With shrewd economy she appraised the guests: "shabby top hats, shabby fur coats, fine and disciplined faces...
After they had been pronounced man & wife, Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip heard the wise and holy counsel of the venerable Archbishop of York. His words reached beyond Westminster Abbey to the whole world. Said...
Novelist Woodruff tries half-heartedly to get under the skins of his English characters, who are forever mooning over the little lanes and hedges of England but behaving with wise good cheer. The Wild Sweet Witch ends with Jodh Singh's death by violence in 1938. It is not violence brought on by his political beliefs. When he is framed by two of his enemies, he goes wild and kills them; then he dies fighting rather than surrender to the British commissioner. The "wild, sweet witch" of his visionary hopes-a free and happy India-has at least...
When she came in, she was kidding about having just turned down her seventh bid for the weekend. I nearly cried. Now Sally is wise to the idiosyncrasies of men-or so she says, being a high, and mighty pretty senior, and she took me under her wing...
...economic field. Most Latin American nations are hungry for dollars, many have full-blown inflation. Colombia last week outlined to the Pan American Union planners a scheme for a $5 billion U.S. loan to finance industrialization of Latin America, stabilize local currencies. In Rio de Janeiro, U.S. -wise Brazilian Businessman Valentim Bougas urged Latin Americans to follow the ex ample of European nations, which met in Paris last summer to canvass their needs. Latin delegates, Bougas said, should get together at Bogota ten days before the conference "to discuss beforehand the Marshall Plan for South America." An other proposal that...