Word: lesson
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Europe--and most important, a united Germany--from moving into the communist periphery, if not the communist orbit, is to make equally attractive concessions. The Administration has indicated that a new era of peace may be dawning. Properly, its policies continue to be cautious. But it must learn a lesson which in these postwar years seems to have been often neglected: that caution is not incompatible with positive action...
Pierre Mendès-France was back in the news, tanned, rested, fit and ready for a fight. He had learned a hard lesson in his fall from power last February. It was not enough to have public favor; he also needed a secure political base in the French Assembly, and he knew that that called for a fight...
...medical lesson of My Left Foot is that even a young adult can be saved from the worst horrors of cerebral palsy. As for Christy Brown, he has use of the royalties to fix up his study, and now has an electric typewriter, which even his jumpy fingers can operate. Now he can keep the shoe on his left foot...
...this-is-how-it-really-was quality, Heartbreak is far more than a newsreel. It threads its story on the trial-by-fire of young Lieut. Gérard Garcet, a replacement starch-fresh from St. Cyr. At first Career Officer Garcet learns a basic lesson-war is mostly waiting...
Muscle-Flexing. The strike cost Fleet Street upwards of $8,000,000, and the Star, Evening News and Evening Standard were forced to raise prices a halfpenny to recoup some of their lost revenue. It also taught British publishers a hard lesson in Communist tactics. The strike was called against all members of the Newspaper Proprietors' Association by the Communist-dominated Electrical Trades Union and the Amalgamated Engineering Union, whose London locals are also under Communist influence...