Word: lesson
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Marxist attacks on Christianity," Miller stated, "taught the Church a lesson in keeping its temper and in discipline of debate." Although Mencken "spent a lifetime lambasting the Church," he said, "we will be worse off if we don't see his kind again...
What is guaranteed, however, is extensive training in news writing for aspiring newshawks, a ten-week lesson in the fine points of photography, or a brief excursion into high finance...
...Jimenez of Venezuela long refused to believe the overwhelming evidence that he is among the world's least popular Presidents. He even held a dangerously free election in 1952 and .had to stage a secret, red-faced recount when returns ran ten to one against him. But the lesson finally sank in. Last week-with the only possible opposition candidate safely tucked away in jail-Perez Jimenez brazenly turned the scheduled Dec. 15 presidential election into a me-or-nothing plebiscite, a forced vote of confidence in the "New National Ideal," its leader and his rubber-stamp Congress...
...breakthrough, in prompting considerable soul-searching in America, may prove a welcome catalyst to the process of national maturity. Instead of scratching its head and, in angry confusion, dubbing the situation "a puzzlement," the country may gain a new confidence and balance. The price for failing to learn this lesson now may be higher later...
...onetime burlesque house. Mayer hid the shoddy past of his theater with a coat of white paint, installed an organ, and dug up a religious film called From the Manger to the Cross. His opening was a socko success. The lines of ticket buyers taught L. B. Mayer a lesson he never forgot: Americans want simple, clean entertainment...