Word: wising
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Every corner of the world would be affected by the Labor Party's success or failure. All men, therefore, had a right to sit in judgment on the Labor Party; but the clearest right and the highest competence to judge was that of the wise, patient and perceptive British electorate, which had placed its lives and its liberties in Labor's hands...
...Perhaps it would be wise if the new pastor first took some sort of oath. We suggest the following .. . . : "I, Pastor -, hereby swear to be intellectually and morally honest at all times except when by being so I might hurt the feelings of a first-rate citizen. I will be particularly careful to say nothing that will bring disgrace on the Pastoral Relations Committee, and glory and a future in the hinterlands on myself, as did my unfortunate predecessor, Pastor John Safran...
Democratic Congressmen from cities with large populations of Jewish voters wavered before a flurry of indignation stirred up by recent British policy in Palestine. New York City's Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, a Zionist leader, set the minds of some at ease with a courageous statement supporting the loan on its own merits. Republicans from isolationist midwestern districts, however, felt no pro-loan pressure from Stassenite successes in Minnesota's primary (see Political Notes...
...Wales Latham, descendant of 300 years of New England Yankees, became a Commander in the Order of the British Empire-for wartime Bundling (chief organizer, president) for Britain. Another new member of the Order: Rabbi Stephen Wise's artist wife, Louise Waterman Wise, who headed the women's division of the refugee-harboring American Jewish Congress...
Italy's tantrum of outraged national pride over Trieste recalled similar symptoms of hyper-nationalism after the last war. Then, as now, Italians insulted their friends, wallowed in self-pity and exaggerated every setback into a catastrophe. A wise but polysyllabic Italian, Giuseppe Borgese, described the national mood: "The nation, masochism-stricken, exulted in frustration...