Word: wising
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...insistence on a single military commander. The man: Navy Secretary James Forrestal. The best bets to fill two of the new subordinate secretaryships: for Air, Yaleman W. Stuart Symington, now Assistant Secretary of War for Air, socialite, industrialist and son-in-law of New York's military-wise Congressman James W. Wadsworth; for Navy, handsome Under Secretary John L. Sullivan, New Hampshire lawyer and faithful Democrat, who got his Washington start in the Bureau of Internal Revenue...
...many of the wise old railbirds liked Stymie's chances. Hadn't Assault come from behind to beat him the week before? Obviously Assault, undefeated in 1947, was the horse to beat, and one of the few hesitations the wise guys had was over those two unpredictable horses specially flown in from the Argentine and Brazil...
...brought cases of food with him to ensure victory in England. This English resentment is easily explained and can be shrugged off by Americans as something that just cannot be helped. But basically, it is a mis-directed resentment, the real roots of which lie in Britain's penny-wise-and-pound-foolish policies...
Among the 22 passengers on the initial flight, publicity-wise Pan Am had included 15 bigwig publishers and editors. They had taken tea with Prime Minister Clement Attlee, dined with China's Generalissimo, supped with General Douglas MacArthur. With lesser luminaries, they wined & dined in Istanbul, Calcutta, Manila and Honolulu...
...Akron, Ohio, Bernice L. Wise sued a cafe proprietor for damages, complained that while in the café she had been bitten by one of two Pomeranians in their cups...