Word: wising
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...longer skirts, any wise and well-dressed woman knows it is more appealing to conceal rather than reveal...
...right-handed hitter, Jackie has a habit of swinging too soon and his motion is half chop, 'half lunge. As a result, he fouls off a lot of balls to the left. But his batting average at week's end was a solid .301. The wise boys who judge a hitter by his Runs Batted In totals are apt to take too fast a look at Jackie's R.B.I, and grumble that Jackie can't hit in a tight spot. But as the club's No. 2 hitter in the lineup, Jackie...
...England's famed Wimbledon tourney, he found that the British spectators were different. Unlike the U.S. crowd, which nearly always pulls for the underdog, they wanted to see the best man win. At Wimbledon, the alert expertness of Big Jake always seemed to be understood by the tennis-wise crowd, expressing itself in cries of "Good shot" almost as soon as the ball met the racket...
Competing in a class limited to inexperienced swimmers--mainly from Bill Brooks' summer swimming class, Nilsson was clocked in the free style event at 25.3 seconds, a tenth of a second slower than the time posted by a Varsity squad member, Steve Wise, in winning the open class race over the same distance...
...other open events, Phil Shutt did the 50 yards on his back in 33 seconds for the summer backstroke title and Willie Kraus, who trailed Wise in the free style, got his medal in the breaststroke with a 32 second clocking...