Word: wising
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Rutger," I said, "was it wise for America to sell weapons to Iran...
...LIFE AND ART OF VLADIMIR NABOKOV, Andrew Field -- THE WISE MEN, Walter Isaacson and Evan Thomas
...year was 1940, and the political master Franklin D. Roosevelt was speaking at a Jackson Day dinner about the glories of his beloved Democratic Party. "But the future lies with those wise political leaders," admonished F.D.R., "who realize that the great public is interested more in government than in politics...
...PAPER, Richard Kluger -- VN: THE LIFE AND ART OF VLADIMIR NABOKOV, Andrew Field -- THE WISE MEN, Walter Isaacson and Evan Thomas...
...reluctant to play the Russian sage or the Slavic mystic. Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky had those parts sewed up, and besides, Chekhov was offended by the pronouncements of those who felt above the battle. "All great wise men," he said, with the author of War and Peace in mind, "are as despotic as generals and as impolite and insensitive as generals because they are confident of their impunity...