Word: learn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Even Communist bigwigs are prey to dangerous indifference. One of Togliatti's own close friends, who felt that the Kremlin was taking itself altogether too seriously, recently remarked: "The best cure for the Russians would be a year in Naples where they could learn to laugh." In Eastern Europe, comrades have been made to laugh out of the other side of their mouths for such pleasantries...
...almost as badly at Harrow. He was kept in the lowest form because he could not learn Latin and Greek, only English. "Thus I got into my bones the essential structure of the ordinary British sentence-which is a noble thing." He is grateful to Harrow, and tries to be fair: "Harrow was a very good school." But Churchill cannot refrain from one last bite: "Most of the boys were very happy, and many found in its classrooms and upon its playing-fields the greatest distinction they have ever known in life...
...made an intense study of Bartlett's Familiar Quotations. When nobody at the Bangalore garrison could tell him what the word "ethics" meant, he began to read in search of answers. It was a long quest, for Churchill was to spend his life in politics and to learn with his friend John Morley that "those who would treat politics and morality apart will never understand the one or the other...
...their Gib sons, promptly swallowed the news. After all, hadn't Evie scooped even Bootsie with the news that William III was on the way? Last week, after brooding darkly about the whole thing, Columnist Hearst scratched back at Columnist March: "Friends will be pleased and amazed to learn that Newsgal Evelyn Peyton Gordon at long last is expecting." No one was more amazed than fortyish, married and childless Evie; she was too mad even to scratch back. The sound of strife on Washington's back fence died away. Titillated readers of the society columns would have...