Word: lesson
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...speaking out against mob rule may well bring about Miss Lucy's reinstatement after the storm has passed. But regardless of future actions, proponents of gradual integration should not be dismayed by the tempest at Tuscaloosa: the disgraceful treatment of Miss Lucy should serve as a lesson in the fine art of integration...
...crowded main street in downtown Sao Paulo, a lean, intense young man brandishing a length of rubber hose charged a paunchy, white-haired, grandfatherly type. "Nasty old man!" shouted the attacker. "I'll teach you a lesson!" The improvised truncheon whistled past the victim's head, thudded against his shoulder. After that the oldster did the teaching. He whipped off his glasses, grabbed the upswung truncheon with both hands, wrenched it away, then gave the young man several ferocious whacks with it before the cops put an end to the skirmish, a sequel to a talk...
...Archbishop of Salzburg. Even so, he thought it precocious that "Wolferl" at the age of three should "bawl with disappointment" when his small fingers struck a discord on the clavier. At four, Wolferl scribbled down his first clavier concerto; at five, before he had had a single violin lesson, he played second fiddle in a trio. "One need not have learnt in order to play second fiddle," he informed the grownups...
...Alec Guinness, are uncommonly convincing. Probing into his subject's mind, which he must capture, the Interrogator is cooly restrained. At last he uncovers weakness: the noble cleric, believing pride to be his own defense, is in truth a very humble man. The twisted confession is extorted. But the lesson is the Interrogator's, who, in the torture sessions, has realized his moral foundering and come to love the Prisoner...
...Their military importance has been obvious since the German V-25, speeding many times as fast as the sound of their coming, hit London in 1944. If they had carried atomic warheads, they would have reduced much of England to radioactive rubble. No military nation missed this chilling lesson. War had taken on a new dimension; even before the first atomic bomb, it took little imagination to picture dozens of deadly duties that missiles could perform...