Word: learn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Pastor Bauer could draw more Masons to his church, it would serve to broaden him, and he would learn that he has no more claim on Jesus than have his enlightened Masonic brethren...
...retreating South Korean cavalryman reined in his horse on a muddy road near Suwon one day last week, waved wildly at a U.S. bazooka team and shouted a warning: "Tanks, tanks!" Then he spurred his mount southward. The cavalryman was neither coward nor fool; he had already learned what many a U.S. soldier would learn in full and bitter measure before the tide of battle turned: the Communist ground forces, for the moment at least, had the better weapons...
...Seventh Fleet have a war on their hands and other things than Formosa to think about. Nevertheless, they have reasonably requested clarification here and in Washington of Truman's rather cryptic cease-fire orders to Chinese forces, and with notable patience and forbearance have tried to learn what is expected of them by the Seventh Fleet...
Monnet listened to the objections with the tactful, judicial air of an architect aware that he can still learn something from other builders. The Dutch, the principal objectors, wanted the governments to have more of a check on the new body. Said they: "If you try to push governments into the corner and ignore them, you will find that they turn into a group of brooding animals." But even the Dutch wanted to avoid a one-power veto. A likely solution: only a two-thirds vote of the member nations could override Monnet's supranational authority...
...road ahead of the U.S. was going to be harder than any it had ever traveled. Among the perils, all-out war was a possibility, but not a certainty. If they could strike back at Communism, if they could learn to fight the wars that were not called wars, if they could prove their power and purpose in Asia, the U.S. and the free world might win through to peace...