Word: wising
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Heart-wrenching drama can be found in Comrade Ed, the touching story of a wise, talking horse from the Great Patriotic War who teaches neighborhood children the virtues of informing on parents, saving scrap metal, and mixing a fine Molotov cocktail. The final episode of this miniseries is particularly moving, as the children wave goodbye to Ed as he is dragged off to the People's Glue Factory...
BELIEVE IT OR NOT, there are some existential tortures that I missed as a freshman: lottery hell, work-study hell, extracurricular hell. Next party you're at, pull some wise senior aside and get him or her to talk about it, if they dare. Otherwise, repeat your mantra, rub your lucky rabbit's foot, and keep a crucifix handy, and you probably will sail through freshman year unscathed. If not, don't say I didn't warn...
...billion House bill, which has not yet been considered by the Senate, would provide significant new funding for drug interdiction, law enforcement, education, rehabilitation and treatment. Passed by a 392 to 16 vote, it contained several hastily drafted, and not always wise, amendments...
Certainly not a new thought, yet the administration of Harvard University often seems unaware of this wise and simple adage. The University rarely seems capable of more than fitful efforts at responding to the challenges posed by a rapidly changing educational environment. Last year was as fine an illustration as any of the slow and clumsy character of Harvard's decision-making, with three important faculty issues receiving sporadic amounts of effective attention...
...could say it was wise or unwise, and plenty of people said it was unwise. It was a question of what was least bad," Pusey says...