Word: wise
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...examination reveals him as a master of the ambiguous statement, able to weave loopholes and cobwebs into a pleasing fabric on every issue. A smooth politician? Certainly. A great leader? Doubtful. My vote will probably go to Mr. Nixon as a man big enough to admit a fault and wise enough to correct...
With quarterbacks Grady Watts and Chuck Kinney directing the attack, the Crimson will probably move as it has in the last four games--well. (Harvard has scored 94 points in four games.) The starting halfbacks will be Bob Hunter and Billy Taylor, backed up bench-wise by Harris Leroy and Sal Fiscina. Full-back Gil Bamford, who is out with shoulder trouble, will be replaced by Fred Bartl in the starting line...
...there were a "dependable ceasefire" in the area, said Dulles pointedly, "I think it would be foolish to keep these large forces on these islands. We thought it was rather foolish to put them there, and, as I say, if there were a cease-fire ... it would not be wise or prudent to keep them there." Ike backed him up: "I believe, as a soldier, that was not a good thing to do, to have all those troops there...
...Vice President Henry Cabot Lodge as coordinator of all U.S. nonmilitary cold-war programs, and to use Nelson Rockefeller "to the extent that the duties of his office would permit." and above all. his announcement that President Eisenhower had agreed, after leaving office, to make his "wise guidance and rich experience" available to a Nixon Administration...
...Sleep. But with Europe's resurgence, the Moslem world sank into a long intellectual sleep. By the mid-18th century, Karaouine's able scientists had departed, leaving behind an obsolete religious curriculum taught by ulemas (wise men), whose main claim to tenure was their power to vote on succession to the Moroccan throne...