Word: teachings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...43rd was understrength for two months; then the Pentagon suddenly overwhelmed the division with 10,000 raw draftees, many of whom had the draftee's stock resentment at being sent to a Guard division. The 43rd had some fine officers and noncoms, tough, able soldiers who could teach men how to fight, but there were not enough to handle the job. Too many officers were old and incompetent; as in many Guard outfits, the 43rd's regimental rosters were topheavy with state politicos...
...days later, Nehru tried to start another cleanup. Part of the Indian press, said he, is dirty, indulges in "vulgarity, indecency and falsehood." To teach it manners, Nehru proposed an amendment to India's constitution that would impose severe restrictions on freedom of speech and expression. He asked for power to curb the press and to punish persons and newspapers for "contempt of court, defamation and incitement to an offense." Nehru told Parliament: "It has become a matter of the deepest distress to me to see the way in which the less responsible news sheets are being conducted...
...artistic career finally won out; in 1941 he joined the N.E.A. feature syndicate to work on such comic strips as "Boots and Her Buddies" and "Alley Oop." After Army service in Alaska and the Aleutians during the war, he went back to Baylor for his B.A. and began to teach art there. But the ministry was still on his mind...
...Father is not just a stupid, henpecked husband, but a stifled human nature battling forlornly in middle age with the first problem of childhood: to establish an identity. Mother is not merely a domineering woman, but a terrifying archetype of the man-hater, a domestic tyrant whose methods could teach something to Machiavelli, perhaps even to Freud...
Neophyte Composer Grant, a Navy veteran, has been a patient in Cushing Veterans Administration Hospital in Framingham, Mass, since last year. Musically untrained except for a few childhood stabs at piano lessons, he asked Mrs. Charles Davidson, Red Cross volunteer, to teach him piano again. He mastered Sweet Rosie O'Grady with his right hand: "I couldn't use my left...