Word: tells
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Since he will be in the United States only briefly, Miller will have time for little else but drama. "However," he said, "I would like to tell all the teeny shoppers who have been stopping me on the street because I have a British accent, that Paul McCartncy is alive...
King Collins liked to tell authority to go to hell. He cussed at deans and yelled at professors...
...only are these two adolescent, they are insecure. Pookie is insecure because her mother died giving birth and her father travels... subtle, ch? That's why she jabbers on for hours, days even. It is also the probable excuse for why she makes up such dear little stories to tell nuns and boardinghouse ladies. Jerry is secure-he has a good family. You can tell he is secure by the immobility of his facial features and by the fact that he thinks Pookie is a little "crazy...
...things she said I might have heard before, but not with the same "naive" intensity. The feeling with which she spoke each word overwhelmed my college-conditioned tendency to dismiss without a second thought any ideas expressed poorly or in cliches. I knew nothing about her, but I could tell that whoever and whatever she was, she was something special. I looked forward to spending time with this haunting, strange, wild girl-a witch, she called herself...
...shouldn't have to tell you about Harvard," he'll advise. "Just the name Harvard ought to get you angry enough to play your best hockey. That's all I have...