Word: tells
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Widerman describes himself as a "touchy, feely" kind of guy, who can always tell what's going on inside his body. Wilderman's circle of friends extends well beyond his athletic world, including artists, scientists and architects...
Rakoff has not tabulated the number of scores below 48 yet. And she said she needed a better idea of how the rest of the student body did before she could tell how well Harvard had done, as a whole, compared to other schools...
Once I tried to tell her that I did not think any amount of dieting would make her look like Bob Hope. "This is America," she said. "I have every right to pursue my dream. Some people want to be rocket scientists. I want to be Bob Hope. Now shut up and pass the diet Coke...
...habit of discontent has been the engine driving their lives. And the only thing left to be discontented about is contentedness. Suddenly Barbara can't stand the way Oliver chews his food. Or his insistence on correcting the details when she tries to tell dinner-party stories. When he suffers what at first looks like a heart attack -- it turns out to be a hiatal hernia -- she cannot quite make it to the emergency room to fake anxiety and sympathy. That night, she proposes separation...
...doughnut stores is absurd. Says he: "There's a fake folksiness at work." Although Liebs somewhat agrees, he feels it is necessary to study vernacular architecture. "This century," he says, "is also highways and strips and suburbs." As Chuck Berry told the doo-wop generation, Roll over, Beethoven, and tell Tchaikovsky the news...