Word: lesson
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nine comrades got to the hall, they were besieged by a mob of 5,000, beaten with knuckledusters, bottles, lead pipes and crowbars. Le Pen broke up a chair to make a club, battled his way clear. Only after the police decided the Poujadists had learned their lesson did they intervene. "In Toulouse, as in all France, Fascism will not pass," orated the mayor, and led the crowd in the Marseillaise and the Internationale...
They do not often have free votes in the House of Commons; usually the whips are on, and members are as near as makes no difference compelled to support their party . . . There is a lesson for everybody in [the free vote on capital punishment-Feb. 27] -a lesson alike for those who have despaired of Parliament and for those who have kept their faith in it. It is a first sign of a real revival of parliamentary freedom, and, whatever the merits of their particular votes, the young Conservatives have deserved well of the country by their courage...
Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas got a painful lesson in the British laws of libel, learned that reflections upon the character and ability of a British official can be dangerous. The defamed Briton: Sir Reginald Hugh Dorman-Smith, Britain's onetime (1941-46) governor of Burma, whom Douglas accused of general bungling in office in his travelogue North from Malaya. In a court-approved settlement, Lawyer Douglas and his British publisher last week offered "sincere apologies and regrets...
...tables on the colleges. "We are entitled," he wrote, "to expect that the college graduate be able to read argumentative or expository prose swiftly, comprehendingly. and retentively; that he be able to express himself in speech and writing grammatically, literately, and precisely; that he has learned the basic lesson of using a dictionary. But we have found that few of our entering students, however carefully selected, possess these skills to the extent needed for law study...
...five-lesson course in Esperanto, the "international language," will begin on Thursday under the sponsorship of the World Federalists. The first meeting will be held at 8 p.m. in Phillips Brooks House...