Word: leste
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...listen to music too often. It affects my nerves and makes me want to say sweet nothings and stroke the heads of men who live in a dirty hell and can still create such beauty. But these days you can't go around stroking people's heads lest your hand be bitten off. You have to smash them over the head-smash them without mercy-even though in theory we are against every form of oppression of mankind . . . ours is a hellish task...
...natives were eager to learn, but not always easy to teach. At first, he found, students from one island would refuse to mingle with those from another. Also, they had a horror of losing face: a teacher scarcely dared flunk students lest they refuse ever to go home again. Even some of O'Brian's alumni were troublesome. A few got back to their villages and refused to do any work; some even tried to overrule their chiefs. Others flouted ancient taboos in their parents' faces...
...rail coach converted by iron plates into an "armored car"-we clanked across the quarter-mile steel bridge spanning the Huai. The river's northern shore was buttressed at the bridgehead with zigzag trenches and barricades of sharp wooden stakes. It had been cleared of all sampans lest the Communists seize them for a crossing...
...triumph for Untouchable Dr. Ambedkar. Years ago, Columbia-educated Ambedkar, appointed to an official post by the Gaekwar of Baroda, was overwhelmed by humiliation and forced to resign. "Papers had to be flung to me," he once said of this experience, "and the carpet had to be rolled back lest higher castes stood on the same material...
...William James. He had wandered from art to medicine, to psychology ("The first lecture on psychology I ever heard being the first I ever gave"), and then finally to philosophy. He was forever reading the books of unknown authors, or listening to the lectures of his juniors, lest he overlook some undiscovered genius. He detested "educated cleverness in the service of popular idols and vulgar ends." As a teacher, he preferred thinkers of another sort: "Our undisciplinables are our proudest product...