Word: lesson
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...undoubtedly true that American school children do prefer holidays and that some teachers are unhappy with their jobs. But the tone of the lesson is not quite objective...
...Russian opinion of the book comes in grammar lesson thirteen among sentences to be translated into the interrogative: "This book is loved by all the Soviet children." It probably...
...History Lesson. At the moment, in fact, Eden's standing is probably higher in his own country than it is in the rest of the world, which by and large has returned a massive verdict of disapproval. Not the least of that disapproval stemmed from the palpably hypocritical versions of history Eden has disingenuously tried to foist on the world...
...Boston audience gasped as he said: "Every piece of scientific evidence, every lesson of history and experience, indicates that a Republican victory tomorrow would mean that Richard Nixon would probably be President of this country within the next four years," i.e., Ike would not finish his term in office. Unfortunately for Adlai Stevenson and his place in U.S. political history, the charges he flung in the closing hours of the 1956 campaign may be remembered just as long as his stubbornly defended, politically disastrous arguments on ending the draft and calling off H-bomb tests by agreement with Russia...
Entremont got his first piano lesson at eight, from his mother, herself a Grand Prix pianist. At twelve, he was winning his own prizes. Now starting a 50-concert American tour, accompanied by his pretty, redheaded wife, he thinks he might like to live in the U.S. "I like the people," he says. "For the performer, the audience creates a grande ambiance...