Word: lesson
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Said President Eisenhower pointedly in a weekend speech at Gettysburg College: ''The course of appeasement is not only dishonorable. It is the most dangerous one we could pursue. The world paid a high price for the lesson of Munich-but it learned it well...
...Communists' most useful front man in the Arab world, was once a most useful servant of Nuri asSaid. And so long as Kassem, lifelong conspirator and dissembler, keeps any of the keys of power in Iraq, there is always the chance that he may yet teach Russia a lesson that the West has learned to its sorrow-the lesson that events in the Middle East have their own momentum...
Kenneth Reckford, the director, has decked the production out with an enormous amount of comical business, including a hilarious if anachronistic blackboard lesson, and the attribution of an obscene epithet to various members of the audience. Commendable performances in smaller roles are turned in by Martin Kligerman, Andrew Hamilton, Frank Carden, Jeremiah Brady, and others...
...What the voters told the first returning Congressmen confirmed the poll. In Boston, Democratic Representative John McCormack reported invariable assent when he was asked, "What do you think about Berlin, John?" and replied: "It's vitally important for us to be firm-we can't forget the lesson of Munich...
...Cleveland suburb of Lakewood, Ohio saw no good reason last year to offer French and special science courses below the high-school level, as suggested by a band of determined parents. So the parents signed up a French teacher and two working scientists as instructors, charged pupils 50? a lesson, soon had a booming after-school program of their own (TIME, June...