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Word: tells (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...intellectual glory, was scarcely more than an overgrown slum; the grandeur of Rome was overshadowed by its ramshackle ghettos, crime rate and traffic jams. Sanitation was so bad in the Paris of Louis XIV that two miles from the city's gates a traveler's nose would tell him that he was drawing near. Scarcely anyone today needs to be told about how awful life is in nerve-jangling New York City, which resembles a mismanaged ant heap rather than a community fit for human habitation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: WHAT MAKES A CITY GREAT? | 11/14/1969 | See Source »

...fans, Dylan turned to another-the new and notable richness and resonance of his voice in his most recent LP, Nashville Skyline (TIME, April 11). His explanation: "When I stopped smoking, my voice changed so drastically, I couldn't believe it myself. That's true. I tell you, you stop smoking those cigarettes, and you'll be able to sing like Caruso...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rock: A Folk Hero Speaks | 11/14/1969 | See Source »

...doing interviews before and after concerts, and reporters would say things like 'What else do you write?' And I would say, 'Well, I don't write much of anything else.' And they would say, 'Oh, come on. You must write other things. Tell us something else. Do you write books?' And I'd say, 'Sure, I write books.' After the publishers saw that I wrote books, they began to send me contracts . . . Doubleday, Macmillan . . . we took the biggest one and then owed them a book. You follow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rock: A Folk Hero Speaks | 11/14/1969 | See Source »

...Fred as he headed home. "They're just smarter than hell. Reminds me of the time I was hunting mountain goat in Alberta with Bud Gray, the chairman of Whirlpool. After about three hours of panting up those icy mountains, he rested on his bow and said: 'Tell me we're having fun, will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hunting: Of Bear, Bow & Buck | 11/14/1969 | See Source »

...with requests for ice specimens. The interest of other scientists is understandable. The ice now being preserved in deep freezes at Hanover may contain a wide assortment of nature's rare relics, ranging from evidence of past cosmic-ray bombardment to bubbles of ancient trapped air that will tell much about the composition of the earth's atmosphere thousands of years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Glaciology: Secrets of the Icecap | 11/14/1969 | See Source »

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