Word: learn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...between the American West and the people of South Korea. And, so thinking, I reflected as the jeep bumped into Pusan that the machine age and the machine man of the West can be pretty wonderful. But machines still can't talk to people, not as we must learn-and learn very soon-to talk to the people of Asia...
...anti-American, we have only ourselves to blame. In 1927, when General Chiang married Mei-ling Soong, he wanted very much to visit the U.S.A. and Europe. Trouble with his Communists, which . . . has continued to this day, kept him from making that trip. We are just beginning to learn in this country what he has been up against for more than 20 years...
...running forehand that took the ball on the rise, Fred Perry fashion, and a flat, whistling backhand (at present, his best stroke), apparently so effortless that his placements with it seemed almost accidental. He could volley and drop-volley with a skill that juniors seldom have had time to learn...
...Angeles, a World War II veteran named Frank Zaffina, 32, rounded up a posse for a "crusade against Communism," pounced on a half-dozen astonished workmen as they came out of the gates of the Chrysler assembly plant. After three had been badly mauled, Zaffina was surprised to learn that among his victims were included a fellow Navy veteran and another with a South Pacific Air Force record. "I guess it isn't right," he mused next day, "to take the law into your own hands...
...Walker in charge of it. "Johnnie" Walker's colleagues do not remember that he ever argued with anything Patton ever said, or, in fact, answered anything to a Patton order except "Yes, sir." A military fundamentalist, Walker believes wholeheartedly in the ancient military dictum that a man must learn to obey orders before he can give them. Of Patton's many commendations, Walker prized this one the most: "Of all the corps I have commanded, yours has always been the most eager to attack and the most reasonable and cooperative...