Word: wising
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Preparation-wise, it may be better on the road, but there's still nothing to replace a home-cooked meal no matter how gourmet-ish the restaurant...
Reformers owe him a debt of gratitude for that move, but his ties to Sullivan have incurred the displeasure of some conservatives-a few of whom say Russell has profited from the relationship patronage-wise...
...enough and sufficiently wise to know that all you have said is not exactly according to facts," he said as he rose and responded to the tributes, "but I am sufficiently fragile and weak as to want to believe every single word you have said." His voice at times wavering with emotion, he launched into the new agenda he has set for himself?to restore harmony in the Senate, to rebuild trust in Government. At the end of his 15-minute speech, he apologized facetiously. "Well, I got wound up. I did not intend to be that long?but that...
Need one go on? Only to say that Daniel Lavette is always in the right place at the right time-getting into shipping for World War I and out of it before the armistice gluts the seas with empty freighters; that he hedges his private happiness by keeping a wise, patient Oriental mistress in reserve; and that he is neither too proud nor too dissipated to return to his nets when the Depression shatters his empire...
NONFICTION 1. All Things Wise and Wonderful, Herriot...