Word: lesson
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...only one of four children still at home), he took his papers and thoughts down to the gracious 16th century country home in Essex. There, slipping into baggy slacks, he relaxed for an afternoon of pottering about the rose garden with his wife. Next day he read the lesson at the local Anglican church, where he is vicar's warden. In his constituency Rab is universally respected and frequently liked, by gentry and tradesmen alike. "They say he's a cold fish," snorted a retired admiral who often shoots with him. "That's nonsense. Of course...
...Britain, politicians often treat newsmen in a standoffish manner that U.S. reporters have never tolerated at home. But last week British newsmen rebelled and, in high good humor, gave their politicians an American-style lesson in press relations. The issue: the news leaks on the meetings of the Labor Party and its National Executive Committee. Last month, when the party met in a closed session and barely (by a vote of 113 to 104) passed a resolution supporting the inclusion of Germany in Western defenses (TIME, March 8), the respected weekly London Observer (circ. 475,609) reported the meeting fully...
Tired and overwrought, the composer falls asleep one day while administering a piano lesson to a rich man's child. He dreams that his pupil's beautiful mother (Martine Carol) is in love with him, and that he is a famous composer. Waking with a start, he hurries home, jumps into bed and starts to dream again...
First to move in was the Massachusetts Legislature. In 1769, when British troops landed in Boston, terrified colonial statesmen petitioned the College for a meeting place across the Charles. Since Holden was empty, it was selected. In the years that followed, students packed the galleries to learn James Otis' lesson in revolution; and when revolution came, Holden again played its part. Colonial troops flooded into Cambridge, 160 of them squeezing into the tiny Chapel. When they finally rolled out, Holden was almost unfit...
...partly because Harvester has found that Negro workers in general are just as good as white, it declined to conform to the local policy of discrimination when it opened plants after World War II in Memphis and Louisville, and the results, said the Urban League, are an object lesson for U.S. industry...