Word: lesson
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...time learn the lesson of creative love and thereby avert suicide in another great war, Sorokin urges, a new form of Western culture, built on a stronger and more durable foundation, will emerge phoenix-like from the ashes left by the he notes, self-interest and altruism dictate the same current conflagration. For the first time in history, policy. Love or perish--the choices for Western man are limited...
Goren's point count is the most precise complete bidding system yet devised. However, when I once submitted a hand, with the bidding to a certain point and asked what he would bid next, he gave me the best one-sentence bridge lesson I ever had. He asked, "Who are my opponents, and who is my partner...
...French tricolor vanished from the land, Touré began to hope that, having slammed the door, he would not find it irrevocably locked behind him. He hailed France as "a friend and generous brother," called for economic negotiations. Though some Frenchmen wanted to teach Touré a lesson, others counseled the dangers of driving him to appeal to Nasser or his old Marxist masters for help. They thought that France should continue "a generous brother," only not so generous as to those who had fraternally voted...
Last week Ottawa made public its decision. External Affairs Secretary Sidney Smith marched to the General Assembly podium and put Canada squarely behind the U.S. resolution on Red China's ad mission. Said Smith: "Peace cannot be won by giving in to force. That is a lesson people of my generation have learned at heavy cost...
Eventually Velma turns Bogart out, and when, a little later, he jumps out of his hiding place to look for Pard, he is shot dead. There may be a lesson in this...