Word: tells
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...which goes to prove, according to Trynin and McCoy, it is impossible to tell a Harvard man a mile away...
...Tell me what the temperature is right this minute. It's 81, isn't it?" Then he added, with a nod toward his daughter Margaret: "She owes me one dollar if it's 80 or over." The captain flushed, looked as though he wished he were dead, but refused to form an alliance with the President: the temperature was 70.8 degrees. "I'm afraid," said Captain Adell in a barely audible voice, "she doesn't owe you a dollar." the "Winter White House," and as he was driven up Truman Avenue (formerly Division Street...
...like a country where it's nobody's damned business what magazines anyone reads, what he thinks, whom he has cocktails with . . . where no college-trained flatfeet collect memoranda about us," wrote DeVoto. " . . . If it is my duty as citizen to tell what I know about someone, I will perform that duty under subpoena ... I will not discuss anyone in private with any government investigator...
...sent her to Havana to cover the Satira yacht-murder of Playboy John Lester Mee (TIME, May 5,1947). She scooped a horde of male reporters by getting aboard the police-impounded yacht and scampering off with Mee's diary. Last March she got Septuagenarian Vic Shaw to tell the intimate story of her life as one of Chicago's best-known madams. (She sneeringly told Norma she was such a "little cracker you wouldn't be no good in a house.") Last summer Norma went after Chicago's quack doctors and had everything from electric...
Since they had not learned how to read intelligently, "they tended to look to their professors to tell them not merely what books to read but sometimes what chapters and what pages; on being told, the more serious among them would throw themselves upon the recommended pabulum and would try to absorb it in a very frenzied fashion. They read rapidly, desperately and far too much. And because they tended to believe that all facts (and only facts) were important, and, what is more, equally important, the result was often a fearful intellectual congestion from which many of them will...