Word: tales
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...this year's varsity swimming team, tomorrow's meet with Navy will tell the tale. The Crimson journeys to Annapolis weakened by the lack of two ineligible stars and pitted against the strongest team in the Academy's history...
...tried to strangle "the fruit of my sin" with his own hands. When the strength drained out of his hands, he had seized the belt of Theodora's cotton dress and wrapped it around the baby's neck until life was extinct. As Father John finished his tale and stumbled toward the door, his stunned congregation kept silent...
...that sounds as if it was talked on tape at 2 a.m. in the back booth of the Brown Derby, and the reader is often left wondering where the facts leave off and the Flynn-flam begins. But on the whole, My Wicked, Wicked Ways tells an entertaining, cautionary tale about a badly frightened black sheep who tried to prove he was the big, bad wolf and to live up to his public image ("a sword in one hand and a garter in the other...
...Blows. Director Francois Truffaut, another big fish in The New Wave, tells the terrifying tale of a small boy nailed to a cross his parents are too weak to carry (TIME...
Flower Shadows Behind the Curtain, translated by Vladimir Kean and Franz Kuhn. A wry, readable 16th century Chinese tale about a virtuous widow and the Boccaccian crew of thieves, pimps and "Powder-faces" who surround...