Word: lesson
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...government officials and our press appear to be behaving like a pair of sulky boys who have been bested in a foot race. The moon race can teach us Americans a lesson in humility, which is probably more valuable than first place in a prestige contest...
...either to haul tomatoes to market or top hats to the opera. As a result, in ten years station wagons jumped from 2% to 13% of the total market (and 20% of Ford's), and are still climbing. To Ford's George Walker, there is a double lesson in these statistics. Says he: "Without function, beauty is defeated, but without beauty, function itself is soon defeated...
...lesson that John Foster Dulles carried away from the Korean war was that the Communists would never have attacked had they been certain that the U.S. was willing to go to war. Last week Secretary of State Dulles used his press conference to hand the Russians as blunt a warning as they are ever likely to get: if they launch any attack on NATO Part ner Turkey, even under the guise of going to the aid of Red-lining Syria, there will be war with...
...Algeria itself, rebels slit the throats of nine Moslem women and children as a lesson to other Moslems cooperating with the French...
...impossible to commemorate adequately the spirit of Budapest last October, but it is also impossible to forget the sacrifice. The fight showed that the Communist system did not and could not fulfill its promises of democracy. The lesson of Hungary for the neutralist nations should have been a significant...