Word: wising
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...distribution of abilities and ambitions "varies considerably from one type of community to another," Conant said. He added that state requirements are wise "only to the degree that these requirements are sensible ones when applied to each and every community in the state." Continuing in the same vein, he asserted that "unless one were prepared to...establish a system of state schools, I believe no set of state regulations can establish a state system of uniform excellence...
...began working for Part III [which would have empowered the Attorney General to file suits in support of the Supreme Court's desegregation decisions], and we have never stopped working. The pending Douglas-Javits-Celler bill, which contains not only Part III of the 1957 bill, but also wise and generous assistance to Southern communities seeking to integrate their school systems, has the backing of the civil rights organizations...
...Congress, Easter is a time for rest after the first labors of the new year. For wise Congressmen the long Easter recess is also a time for clearing the head of Washington's political vapors and finding out what is in the minds of the folks back home. In 1958 the Easter recess served a key purpose: in Washington, the temptation to fight recession with a spending spree had been almost overwhelming. But when the Congressmen got home at Easter, they discovered to their general astonishment that there was little sentiment for wild pump-priming. That discovery shaped much...
Then Elisheba Rachel Taylor repeated the pledge: "I, of my own free will, seek the fellowship of Israel . . . I believe that God is One, Almighty, All-Wise and Most Holy . . . I promise that I shall endeavor to live, as far as it is in my power, in accordance with the ideals of Jewish life . . . Most fervently, therefore, do I herewith pronounce the Jewish confession of faith: Shma yisroel adonoy elohenu adonoy echod [Hear, O Israel: the Lord our God, the Lord is One]. Boruch shem kvod malchuso I'olom voed [Praised be his name whose glorious kingdom...
...Christendom's own beginning. And it is to this point of origin that Amadeus struggles to find his way-to be reborn in the idea of the Nativity itself and to stand, with his two brothers, in the same relation to the hope-bearing Child as did three wise men of the East 2.000 years before...