Word: lesson
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...there was one lesson that U.S. negotiators should have brought home from the unexpected successes of the NATO conference in Paris, it was that the future health of NATO depends on the vigor of the U.S. response to the Soviet Union's military and diplomatic challenges. One night last week President Eisenhower and Secretary of State John Foster Dulles took to network television to report to the nation on the NATO conference. Their report showed neither vigor nor urgency, was poorly conceived, indifferently staged and dully performed...
...came out of World War II with its tradition of separate services intact, but the war's major lesson was the need for some measure of armed forces unification. The Army generally supported the unification idea-especially the Army Air Force, because in working out unification, the Army Air Force was to become the separate U.S. Air Force. The U.S. Navy, fearing that it would be swallowed up by amalgamation, launched a campaign of massive resistance...
...work, the colonel now decides that they shall. They shall do it, he announces, to the horror of his subordinates, because the British prisoners are not going to sabotage the bridge; they are going to build it; and in building it, they will not only "teach these Japanese a lesson," they will build the health and the morale of the entire battalion...
...Though the level of secondary school mathematics and science is high, teaching in general is unimaginative and suffocating. "The accounts of many German students who studied in the Soviet Union after the war agree in stating that, in a typical class lesson, the teacher would start the class by calling on two or three students to repeat the material of the previous lesson almost verbatim, and that the second half of the hour would be occupied by the teacher delivering the next section of the textbook, again following the text almost or actually verbatim...
...illusion. The boy who meets the tawdry heroine on a railroad embankment merely establishes the situation. Limited though it is, the part is well-handled by Walter McGinn. Jane Cronin is entrancing as she delivers this bubble-frail poetic monologue without benefit of scenery. She provides an object-lesson in good acting...