Word: wising
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pursued him to his suite at the Plaza Athenee Hotel. They knew they could not quote him, and that most of their questions would be parried. But he surprised many of them by fending them affably, in fair French or good English. About himself he was properly mysterious: the wise Russian bureaucrat shuns personal publicity in the foreign press...
Chief among these undesirable elements: local "reactionaries" (e.g., Mihailovich in Adamic's native Yugoslavia) and representatives of Imperial Britain as in Greece). Adamic seemed to worry little about local Communists and representatives of Imperial U.S.S.R. His hope was that Britain-and the Soviet Union-would think it "wise" for the U.S. teams to take charge, at least for a while...
...calls "these foreign pimples." A Goan Congress Party was functioning underground since no political parties are allowed, civil liberties are nonexistent and even a wedding invitation must be censored. Mohandas K. Gandhi has advised Goa's Governor General Dr. José Ferreira Bossa that the Portuguese would be "wise to come to terms with the inhabitants of Goa." Cried Governor Bossa, servant of a European dictator: "Fascist." Cried the Congress organ, Amrita Bazar Patrika, accustomed to a more pachydermic opponent: "This puny Governor must be told that India is in no mood to waste time in arguments with petty...
Eddie Cantor, Joel McCrea and Comedienne Joan Davis had perfectly ripping luck, publicity-wise. They happened to be in a Hollywood café when a couple of hoods trotted in to beat up a gambler. One of the visitors kept the glowing celebrities at bay with a rod while the other gave the gambler ten deep cuts on the head with a blackjack...
...yard freestyle, Stephen Wise of Winthrop set the pace with the time of 25.2 seconds. Dunster's single first place for the afternoon came when Justin Collins won the 50-yard backstroke in 36.2 seconds...