Word: tells
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...jailing of Winter was touched off by his flat refusal to tell whether or not his father-in-law had attended the party's 1945 national convention. It was the climax of eight days of hairsplitting evasion during which Winter's memory wavered, as his fancy suited, from a complete blank to total recall...
...flight broke no record; it was not even a success. But the instruments will tell what went wrong. Later Vikings will be better...
...Distinction. Admen, in league with psychology, following charts marshaled by armies of researchers, plotted a never-ceasing campaign to capture the public's attention, and stab to the psychological soft spots of men & women. They appealed to fear ("Even your best friends won't tell you"), to snobbery ("Men of Distinction"), to romance ("She's lovely, she's engaged, she uses Pond's"). They spoke in euphemisms, wrapped like cotton around the harsh facts of life, and invented dread new diseases (B.O., Office Hips, Halitosis). They found that endorsements by real people, from tobacco auctioneers...
...this point, to stir up the suds a bit, Mature develops a bad heart and is told to quit the gridiron for good. Not daring to tell his wife, he takes to drink. For several reels the script shuffles about in this shoddy dilemma until it stumbles into a shoddier solution. Halfback Mature's recipe for mending a broken marriage: smear your wife's lipstick across her chin, beat her about the face and tell her you love her. All in all, Easy Living is no great shakes either as education or entertainment...
...talking about nuclear energy today? . . . What got the headlines? Tell me. Was it power? No. Bombs . . . And you [physicists] can storm and shout about atomic energy at the top of your voices - the world just won't hear...