Word: learned
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Join the Peace Corps," said the dean. "Go learn something about life before coming here...
McFarlane, however, told the Senators that he did not bring up Ghorbanifar at Bethesda, adding that he did not even learn of the arms merchant's identity until December of that year when he first met him in London. Yet McFarlane did mention Ghorbanifar in a cable to Secretary of State Shultz calling for renewed ties with Iran. The message was sent on June 14, 1985, a month before the Bethesda meeting. McFarlane explains that if he did use Ghorbanifar's name in the cable it was because he thought it was the identity of an aide to Iran...
...when we have emptied our baggage on the table of history, humanity will learn many interesting and cautionary truths. Meanwhile, we should not always ; suspect each other's bags contain bombs, even if strange buzzing sounds come from them...
...does he permit himself any self-pity or sensationalism. The first time he panicked throughout the long ordeal, he writes, was when he had to rush his pregnant sister to a hospital three days after their bewildered arrival in Washington. Assisted in that sudden release and encouraged to learn English by British Poet-Journalist James Fenton, whom he had met in Phnom Penh, the author, now 29, gets it all down with a straightforward vividness that chills the bones. / His portrait of Cambodia lost would in any circumstances be vital anthropology; in the light of what came after, however...
...what used to be called a service station, the attendant, who sits behind bulletproof glass, can do nothing to help a novice learn the new greasy, smelly routine of pumping his own gas. Memories flood back of the typical Tokyo station, where a horde of neat, well-mannered and expert attendants take charge of the car, fill it up, wash it and check the tires. Then they doff their hats, shout their thanks and stop traffic so the customer can drive away...