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Word: tells (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Under Secretary (for Economic Affairs) C. Douglas Dillon, longtime international banker both on Wall Street and in Government and a firm believer in the imperatives of a sound world economic policy. Gradually the President's statements on foreign aid began to soften. By last September, Anderson could bluntly tell the World Bank and International Monetary Fund meeting in Washington: "There must be a reorientation of the policies of the earlier postwar period...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ECONOMY: The Quiet Crusader | 11/23/1959 | See Source »

Last week Bhengu was busy in Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia. Whites jam-packed Salisbury's Methodist Hall to hear him tell them, in precise English, what was wrong with white Christianity: "The greatest dangers in Africa today are Communism and Islam. Both offer the African equality. The churches are divided. There are too many, and their different dogmas and doctrines are too confusing for Africans. Christianity has failed in India and China because Christians have failed to live up to Christ's teaching, and in Africa it's proving an empty shell for the same reason. If Christians...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Black Billy Graham | 11/23/1959 | See Source »

...There's just one more thing," said Dr. Splint firmly. "I see by your card you have something you wanted to discuss with me. Would you like to tell me what that is?" Vag wondered how far he would get if he broke for the door...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ordeal by Stethoscope | 11/21/1959 | See Source »

MacDonald charged that the customer's reaction was built into mass art. "Liberace visually underlines appropriate sentiments as he plays, so that even the most musically illiterate can tell what the music means...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MacDonald Assails Mass Culture, Calls for Separate 'High Culture' | 11/20/1959 | See Source »

...grads--and the experts--will tell you that statistics and previous performances mean little in The Game. What decides this one is team spirit, and both coaches realize that their teams must be "up" for the traditional game...

Author: By Robert E. Smith, | Title: THE SPORTING SCENE | 11/19/1959 | See Source »

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