Word: reading
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...other new refugees found helpful villagers who led them to the big camps that were forming to take care of the large influx. "A half hour after we crossed we started to court nice Austrian girls," Fenyvesi recalls, "and we felt like human beings again." a chance to read certain books I other-wise couldn't read, and it gave me a hope that I could live in this country. Besides, I felt that a middle-class boy should learn English...
...first, we all know how much time in graduate work is given over to preparing for the foreign language examinations--time that should have been spent in high school or in college--and we know, too, how handicapped a student is who cannot read German. He should know German while taking seminars, and not just before he takes the degree. As for ability to write good English, we need no demonstration of the frequent lapses here. And yet no one would question the paramount importance of a man's ability effectively to put forth his findings...
...Accept the Challenge." Landing in Jackson, Kennedy read the local papers−and in them, a challenge from Mississippi Republican State Chairman Wirt Yerger Jr. for him to state his views on integration and segregation. While he kept an overflow reception crowd waiting in the Roof Room of the Heidelberg Hotel, Jack Kennedy hid out in his room, lolling in a warm bath while he thought through a revised version of his speech...
When Queen Elizabeth, dressed in her jewel-encrusted coronation gown and diamond tiara, read the Speech from the Throne written by the Conservative government and outlining its legislative aims, Prime Minister Diefenbaker's strategy came clear. His government would introduce legislation to raise pensions for the aged, needy and war veterans; it planned to provide cash advances for farmers with unsold wheat, and to embark on a far-reaching program of hydroelectric power development. If Parliament balked at any significant part of his program, confident John Diefenbaker would call an early election. Said cautious Louis St. Laurent: "It does...
...writing: to propagandize for the gentle philosophy of the gymnosophists, an obscure ascetic Hindu sect, and to proclaim the humanity, culture and martial skill of the dark-skinned Ethiopians. Today, nearly 1,700 years after his death, both messages have relevance, but the Ethiopica will mostly be read now, as it always has been, as a rattling good adventure story...