Word: wising
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Jones may bear the name of a famous railroad engineer, but last year he acted more like a wise ship captain. When the Boston Celtic ship started to sink, Jones jumped overboard...
...decision not to shave put the host team at an immediate disadvan- tage, but may have been wise in the longrun--the meet concluded a nineday span in whichHarvard had races on seven of those days. TheCrimson showed signs of fatigue from the constantcompetition, and any attempt to gear up for ashaved meet would have been inconsequential...
...retirement in Len Deighton's trilogy Berlin Game, Mexico Set and London Match. Samson's career was not advanced by his wife Fiona's defection to the Soviet Union or by the unreliability of the KGB operative Samson had enticed to the West. And, to top it off, field-wise Bernard found himself ill-suited to maneuvering inside the bureaucracy at London headquarters...
Virtually invisible to radar, the B- 2 is a military landmark. But what does it threaten more -- the Soviet Union or the federal budget? -- A small army of would- be wise men are proffering advice to President- elect George Bush. -- Why Secretary of State George Shultz threw himself into a one- man jihad that kept Yasser Arafat from speaking to the United Nations...
ITALIAN AMERICAN RECONCILIATION. In John Patrick Shanley's Little Italy, all the women are worldly-wise, and all the men are moonstruck. John Turturro leads the cast of this chocolate-heart comedy at the Manhattan Theater Club...