Word: lesson
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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CHICAGO SUN-TIMES: The lesson of the entire affair seems plain: when Senators seek to carry out personal vendettas against presidential appointees under the guise of improving the diplomatic service, they take the risk of damaging America's diplomatic service...
...wants to go to school six days a week? When the Swedish Broadcasting Corporation dreamed up a referendum on the question for teenagers, Sweden's school officials supported it as "a practical lesson in democracy." A vote in favor of lopping a day off the nation's traditional six-day school week seemed a foregone conclusion. To no one's surprise, the five-day forces among the kids took the spotlight with a motto delectable as smorgasbord: "Saturdays off mean less work...
...leather boots, 3-ft. swords and rifles they are born and die with, fought back. Snipers bushwhacked lone Red couriers on the new road to Lhasa. Khamba bands ambushed military convoys. The embittered monks drove off the Chinese farmers sent to take over their land. To teach them a lesson. the Chinese Reds sent bombing planes and leveled the intransigent lamaseries...
...cathedrals, hand-raised him according to the advanced Froebel kindergarten with its great emphasis on creative play with geometric blocks. Summertimes his mother's family, the Lloyd-Joneses-bearded, hymn-singing Welshmen who still boasted of their Druid motto. "Truth Against the World''-gave him a lesson in farm work that Wright later recalled as "working from tired to tired." His father, an unstable drifter who fluctuated between being a Unitarian minister and a music master, taught him the importance of music and oratory...
Armstrong Circle Theater (CBS, 10-11 p.m.).-A lesson for the larcenous: a true tale of how U.S. customs agents cut up a diamond-smuggling ring...