Word: lesson
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...deal was with Russia itself, not Czechoslovakia. Abruptly the U.S. lost patience, withdrew its offer to help finance the Aswan Dam. In retaliatory fury, Nasser seized the Suez Canal crying: "Americans, may you choke to death on your fury." Three months later, determined not just to teach him a lesson but to topple him, the Israelis, British and French attacked Suez...
...shall pay reverence to both TIME and Martin Luther King at the worship service on Sunday by using your story as the source of the Scripture lesson, and reading King's words beginning and ending with ''Please be peaceful. We want to love our enemies . . . and God is with...
...questions") mind of Martin King; he leapfrogged through high school in two years, was ready at 15 for Atlanta's Morehouse College, one of the South's Negro colleges. At Morehouse, King worked with the city's Intercollegiate Council, an integrated group, and learned a valuable lesson. "I was ready to resent all the white race," he says. "As I got to see more of white people, my resentment was softened, and a spirit of cooperation took its place. But I never felt like a spectator in the racial problem. I wanted to be involved...
Behind the new autonomy in the Dark Continent is the principle laid down by Gaston Defferre, who sees the Algerian rebellion as an ominous object lesson: "To prevent is better than to cure...
...higher education. All members of the Richmond Area University Center, they had come not only to exchange ideas but to plan a series of projects together that would have been impossible for any one campus to try alone. In the last ten years, the educators had learned an important lesson: the best cure for many of the ills of U.S. higher education is a steady diet of intercampus cooperation...