Word: tells
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Harvard is a liberal school. Anyone will tell you that. For instance, one Harvard committee is so liberal that it recommends that the College refuse to accept tainted NDEA funds from the United States government. In fact, the students don't have to go to class, or even come in on time after dates. Harvard is indeed a liberal school...
...stimulant but avoids oldtime histrionics. "If Knute Rockne came into my locker room and gave one of his fight talks, the kids would laugh him right out of the place," he says. "You can't fool them. When I was a player, Greasy Neale tried to tell us three weeks running to go out and win the game for his dying mother. And there she was every game, sittin' up in the stands...
Hephzibah is still not tempted, she insists, to seek a concert career, but she enormously enjoys playing with Yehudi: "If we're in a good mood we tell each other the music as though we'd never heard it before. It's like when spring comes. It's always the most beautiful spring you've ever seen...
Alexander himself is Morgan Guaranty's chief bird dog. He moves through a constant round of meetings, receptions and official dinners with bankers, ambassadors, corporate presidents. He is constantly on the alert for the clue that will tell him where to find a potential customer, where to make a big new loan. His door is never closed to those who want to see him. In a recent week he met with the Belgian ambassador and the finance minister of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, played host to several distinguished British bankers, received half a dozen officers of corresponding banks. One customer...
...house while the scientist was mixing martinis). To this day there is no conclusive evidence as to which of the two versions is correct, but Chevalier (who has lived in France since 1950) insists on the truth of the second, or pantry, version. In that case, why did Oppenheimer tell the first story...