Word: wising
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...from Treasury Secretary Shultz, whose Secret Service is custodian of the tapes Shultz, the chairman reported, had concealed that the President had decided to make all relevant tapes available to the committee and would meet with Ervin to arrange the transfer. The chairman praised the President for his "very wise decision." Vice Chairman Baker joined in the salutations, declaring: "It would appear that the White House has shown its spirit of cooperation...
...ENERGY CRISIS: We will have to undergo an unpleasant period now because the Arabs have oil. I think America is strong and wise enough not to be dictated to just because of oil from the Arab countries...
Helen Dickerson Wise looked out the kitchen window of her 100-year-old white clapboard farmhouse one day last week and mulled over the riches that the summer would bring. "I helped my son Dirk plant 755 tomato plants a month ago," she remarked, "and found muscles that I haven't felt in years. By now the corn is about ready; we'll be having the first ears next week. We won't have any strawberries this year, but Til can and jam the peaches from our own trees in the early fall." Mrs. Wise also...
...this is fitting and proper for a housewife who helps manage a 175-acre farm in the bountiful Penns Valley not far from Harrisburg, Pa. (she also plays the organ at the Lutheran Church). But Mrs. Wise says she sometimes wakes up in the middle of the night and thinks: "My heavens, there are 2,000,000 teachers out there. Then I wonder about what 2,000,000 people could do if they had the right leadership." This, too, is fitting and proper, for Mrs. Wise has just assumed the presidency of the 1.4-mil-lion-member National Education Association...
Ervin, of course, is the wise old sage of the hearings. Like a visiting uncle, he dispenses his pearls of wisdom with droll humor and biblical quotations. But it is when he gets angry that Ervin is at his best, Ervin, like none of the others, can bear down on a witness, cutting directly to the heart of the testimony and making clear the full implications of that testimony. His dogged emphasis on the Constitution and the ways in which it has been abused by a particular witness puts the matter in its proper, sweeping perspective...