Word: wising
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...title of Excellency no longer is a prerogative of the state but of shoeshine boys who may use or abuse it at their will and the will of their clients." Said the moderate Risorgimento Liber ale: "Don't be angry, Eccellenza Nenni, but do you think it is wise to attack Neapolitan shoeshine boys, who also will have their share in elections, with a tendency towards socialism? . . . And do you know-Freud found that our indignation at a word or a contemptible action is in direct proportion to our secret disposition towards that word or action we reprove...
Midwestern colleges, well acquainted with Superintendent Johnson's child protege's, like wise required similar exams...
...weeks I waited for your Russian specialist to wise up, but either he is asleep on his job or you haven...
...intend to rule the Germans as slaves by military force till the end of time, we must treat them with justice and, if possible, with mercy. Other wise we lay here and now the foundations of the next...
Reporter Kennedy, who had somehow got his story through-apparently in violation of a pledge of silence by all SHAEF newsmen-had so many facts that few doubted his story. Hearing the news-which in no wise resembled the A.P.'s phony peace bulletin of nine days before -the people of the U.S. and the world quietly rejoiced...