Word: wising
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...kill the enemy's king, and smaller (but still very great) rewards for killing those whom they regard as most responsible after the king for plotting aggression against them . . . Though this manner of waging war . . . may seem like cruel villainy . . . it is considered by the Utopians as a wise and praiseworthy policy, since it enables them to wage great wars without any battle at all. They even think themselves humane and merciful, because by the death of a few bad men they spare the lives of so many innocent men who would otherwise die in battle...
...Kennedy Airport's long runways along Jamaica Bay in Queens, visibility was two miles, the ceiling 5,000 ft.-both-well beyond landing and takeoff minimums. The arcs of lightning, terrifying to many air travelers, caused little concern among the air-wise. Lightning slips routinely off the skins of modern air: craft, rarely impairing vital controls or igniting the well-protected fuel tanks. J.F.K.'s radar picked up the thunderstorm's ominous hook-shaped rain cells. Rain itself poses no unusual problem for pilots. Yet real dangers lurked invisibly in this storm's particular pattern...
Traditionally, of course, less sophisticated investors do just that. Their usual pattern is to barrel into a bull market during its later stages; thus, as a group, they invariably lose more money than they make. They may fall into that trap again this year, but most of the street-wise institutional investors who brought this year's bull market to life believe that it still has plenty of steam for everybody...
...Illinois Department of Corrections. "But I was 20, and what I was also holds true for most young whites and blacks in ghetto slum areas. We would classify each other, and then we would have to live up to the classification. I thought I was hip, in the know, wise, and umpteen other things...
...potent Harlem base to the sect's Chicago headquarters so that Wallace could keep a closer eye on him. At last week's rally, Farrakhan was full of praise for the new messiah. "No other man holds the key to divinity," he said. "There is no one wise enough to approach the shoelaces of Wallace D. Muhammad...