Word: wising
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mayor, being both a wise and thrifty person, set about selling his trained moose. After considerable dealings with various prospective purchasers, he sold the animal to a small travelling circus where, it is reported, it was used to run sprint trials (on a straight course) against another member of the circus case, a large trained ostrich. It is further reported that the moose could beat the ostrich nine times...
...Secretary of National Defense," the Secretary of National Defense explod ed. "It looks like you people up here would wise yourself up to who are some of the important people in this town . . ." And so Louis Johnson was shown to a seat...
...Communism can be defeated only after colonialism goes, and after the living standards of Asia's masses are raised. This is where American abundance and generosity could come in. Nehru recognizes the need for U.S. food, capital and technical aid in India and elsewhere. It would not be wise to wait until Communism in Southeast Asia reached the Chinese or Greek stage where it must be fought with guns...
...Gazette), but sedate family men also ate up the weekly's authoritative sport news and lurid stories of "horrid murders, outrageous robberies . . . vulgar seductions," under such titillating or shocking headlines as SNARED BY A SCOUNDREL. AN INNOCENT COUNTRY BEAUTY or ROAST MAN (on a hotel fire). Promotion-wise Publisher Fox sponsored John L. Sullivan's bare-knuckled heavyweight bouts of the '80s, also gave championship belts and medals to rat catchers, oyster openers, bartenders and barbers...
That anguished cry of womankind has echoed down the ages of this man's world, and the wise guys of every age have found that it pays to sympathize. Author Toombs has sympathized so shrewdly in Raising a Riot that he is likely to be paid plenty in royalties...