Word: learnt
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...chance to talk at an impersonal level with ambassador Hartman," Tendler said. "If I had read 10 books I couldn't have learnt as much about U.S-U.S.S.R. relations and Gorbachev's new reforms...
...clifftop hot tubs. The darkness is lighted by candles, the stillness scented with incense. Beside her, a photographer and a chef from San Francisco are discussing the novels of Tanizaki. "The cuticles are very important," the woman proclaims, wiggling her toes furiously. "Very important. I learnt that in class last Wednesday." "Hunh, what?" exclaims her equally naked, equally graying male companion. "That's wisdom flowing through you, knowledge," she explains above the roar and recession of the waves. "That's energy being liberated, energy being balanced." "Whatever it is," mutters her friend, "it sure feels good...
...have they not been learnt...
...United States giving the example of a tone in relations which is present, active, co-operative, respectful, aware of cultural differences and truly proper for a great power unafraid of ideological labels, capable of coexisting with diversity in Latin America as it has learnt to coexist with diversity in Black Africa...
...cool. In an effort to get his plant back from the hands of British receivers, he appears to have invented investors he said were poised for the rescue. Sir Kenneth Cork, one of the two British receivers, said last week, "They were always shadowy people whose names we never learnt. There would be a telex saying businessmen would put up so much, but always on the condition they were not named. They never emerged into daylight...