Word: learnedness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Juan Bramuglia had learned the painful lesson anyone learns who tries to make Russia see reason.
"Forced Landing?" The U.S. Army was slightly embarrassed by its unexpected guests. Should they be returned as deserters, or kept as political refugees? At first the State Department ordered the men returned to the Russians, then changed its mind. After an all-night teletype discussion between Vienna, Washington, Paris and...
At his first press conference, a few days later, Shaw learned that it was not going to be that simple. This time newsmen peppered him with hot questions about Nicaragua's explosive political situation. Questions like that, snapped Shaw, were out of bounds. Next morning the Managua press let...
Alicia had been forced to do it without benefit of the habit-forming comic strips that helped popularize the Daily News. But she had another asset: her newspaper know-how learned at her father's knee.
The usually affable musician works up a fine contempt discussing the Metropolitan Opera Company, which he claims has horribly stunted the growth of American opera. His early Tanglewood work amazed the New York critics, who have since learned that an evening of opera need not be four hours of vocalizing...