Word: learns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...able, longtime Ambassador to the U.S. and the United Nations, invited him to get into politics. South Africa-born, Cambridge-educated Abba Eban will presumably be groomed to replace ailing Golda Meir (formerly of Milwaukee) as Foreign Minister. First he must get in touch with domestic problems, and learn to leaven his meticulous classical Hebrew with the kind of everyday Hebrew that contemporary Israelis understand...
After summer school at both Heidelberg and Grenoble ("I wanted to learn French and German, but didn't until somewhat later") Sigmund came to Harvard, and attended GSAS in political theory along with Miles, Hoffman, Brzezinski, and Mavrinac. The next year ("I spent the summer as a car hop in a drive-in restaurant") he began assisting in Gov 1, and the year following was given residence at Dunster and additional work with Gov 106. Then after his third year here he received a grant for study towards his thesis--study which would take him back to Europe. And Sigmund...
Sigmund returned to Europe from Ceylon, with steps in the trigger-happy Near East ("It was Suez time"). The Air Force then extended an invitation ("I had a ROTC commission from college"), and he spend a year and a half ("Just long enough to learn to ski") with Air Force Intelligence in Germany and France...
...second place, colleges and universities will have to learn to evaluate the needs of prospective borrowers. Lack of experience in this area, Monro maintained, should not make such measurement difficult; any good system needs only a firm, reasonable expense budget, and an equally well-determined estimate of family aid and student self-help...
...firm and articulate. Even when Khrushchev turned from geniality to insolence, reversing what he called the Russian tradition of beginning a meal with tart foods and ending with sweet ones, Macmillan remained receptive yet firm. He had come, he said, to explain the position of the West and to learn at first hand the attitude of the Russians on the problem of Berlin and central Europe...