Word: lesson
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...half-hour lessons will be based on the text and stick-figure drawings of English Through Pictures by Richards and Miss Gibson. However, each lesson will include two live sequences, using local actors, to aid in comprehension, and to give the students variations in American voices, accents and personalities...
Looking on from afar, India's Jawaharlal Nehru, who was slow to express indignation about Soviet tanks in Hungary, read in the Yugoslav-Russian quarrel a lesson of Communist "interference in other countries' domestic affairs...
...international Communists had invaded the hemisphere with a vengeance and were capable of precise, cold-war operations in South America. It also showed that they were capable of spitting on a woman, an act that would cost them heavily in a continent that prizes manners. Latin Americans got a lesson in the excesses of nationalism. And for the U.S., there could no longer be illusions, complacency or high-level brushoff in U.S.Latin American relations...
...packed his bag, flew to Louisville and on Derby Eve treated a race-wise crowd to a professional demonstration of ring-wise skill. Archie's snappy little imperial stayed trim as a movie star's toupee while he gave young (25) Besmanoff a painful ten-round boxing lesson. He won the decision handily...
...Intemperate. Cost of moderate fluency: $300 to $500 for 60 to 100 hours of private instruction. The vocabulary taught is selected for the frequency with which words are used in conversation rather than in literature, which is the basis for most college word lists. Part of the course: a lesson in intimate and intemperate uses of language. Berlitz reasons that even a gentlemanly student ought to know that to call a Chinese a tortoise, for instance, is grounds for water torture...