Word: tells
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion went to bed early. Turning on the radio next morning at his desert cottage at Sde Boker, he heard the news at breakfast that he had won another election. Then his campaign manager helicoptered in from Tel Aviv to tell him he had won the biggest triumph of his political career...
...wife of a House Master, Mrs. Owen has become knowledgable with the concerns of the House. She knows about the problems of the Comstock-Winthrop merger, can tell you what Winthrop boys play on what teams, and has though up some answers to give Sophomores who ask about Sophomore slump...
Stern spirits by the thousandfold . . . Then, with the air of a minstrel who stills his lute and steps forward to address his audience, Graves breaks into prose: "You wish to know which of the gods originated the quarrel between these Greek princes, and how this happened? I can tell...
Above the Trolls. Joyce's magnificent obsessions with the wit and wiles of the English language began at his father's breakfast table. Of a morning, John Joyce might read an obituary. "Oh! Don't tell me that Mrs. Cassidy is dead," protested James's mother on one occasion. "Well, I don't quite know about that," said Papa Joyce with a quizzical glint in his monocled eye, "but someone has taken the liberty of burying...
...critical revaluation. He does not ask if Finnegans Wake is a masterpiece, or a monstrous jungle of word play. Nor does he ask whether Joyce's famed "interior monologue" really reveals anything, or whether T. S. Eliot was correct when he suggested that "it doesn't tell as much as some casual glance from outside often tells...