Word: tell
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...While we don't get everything we want, any representative or senator would tell you he listened very attentively to Common Cause positions," Cox said
Four years. Four different finishes. I'd run the gamut of achievement and emotion in front of a packed Garden house each February. My term was up. It was time to load up the station wagon and tell Mom she was right...
...Every country in the world today, in a lesser or a greater degree, depends on other countries. I tell you that never, never, has the Soviet government tried to tell Cuba what it should do in matters of domestic policy or international policy...
...tell you what I'm thinking. When I was in school in the 1930s, I wanted to make the hockey team. I went out in the moonlight and practiced hockey. Another boy, he'd shoot at me. Well, I made it, babe, but I was out night after night after night, practicing. It's the same way in business. Only something that you start working on today will pay off in five or ten years...
...writing--seems to be used more as an inspirational device before writing than as a writing technique. And his latest book, due for publication late this year, brings Burroughs even closer to conventionality, at least as close as a writer who killed his wife in a game of William Tell and suffered hallucinations at the age of four will ever get. Burroughs recently talked about the novel, Cities of the Red Night, in his sparely furnished apartment on New York's Bowery...