Word: wising
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Over the years, Gallo developed a wise-guy kind of humor that led some naive acquaintances to consider him a sort of folk hero. He was summoned to Robert Kennedy's office in 1959 when Kennedy was counsel to a Senate rackets investigating committee, looked at the rug and said, "Hey, this would be a great spot for a crap game." He once told a courtroom: "The cops say I've been picked up 15, maybe 17 times. That's junk. It was 150 times. I been worked over for nothing until my hat sits...
...dissident Baptist preacher and moderator of Ulster's Free Presbyterian Church, "Big Ian" is unques tionably Ulsler's most compelling orator. He has made a career out of anti-Catholicism, but his former wise cracks at the expense of "Old Red Socks," as he used to call the Pope, have been toned down. On the first day of internment, he denounced the new policy and declared it would not work. Last week Paisley took a characteristically independent stand by advocating "total integration into Great Britain...
Beat Japan. Soldier Wang continues to smile. Is he going to get into the market with his transistors and compete with Japan, someone asks. Wang straightens. "We are determined we will not only catch up with but surpass Japan because of the wise leadership of Chairman Mao and the system of socialism...
About this time there lived Jesus, a wise man, if indeed one ought to call him a man. For he was one who wrought surprising feats and was a teacher of such people as accept the truth gladly . . . He was the Messiah. When Pilate, upon hearing him accused by men of the highest standing among us, had condemned him to be crucified, those who had . . . come to love [him] did not cease. On the third day he appeared to them restored to life. For the prophets of God had prophesied these and myriads of other marvelous [things] about...
Pines' version simply describes Jesus as "a wise man" whose "conduct was good" and who "was known to be virtuous." Moreover, it does not mention any involvement of the Jewish leaders in Jesus' trial, a good test of authenticity; any Christian apologist tempted to tamper with the text would almost surely have mentioned the Jews' role. As far as the resurrection is concerned, the 10th century manuscript recounts it only as a claim: "His disciples ... reported that he had appeared to them three days after his crucifixion and that he was alive; accordingly, he was perhaps...