Word: tells
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When she told him she wanted to drop the course, he asked her how she would explain a withdrawal notation on her transcript to graduate school interviewers. She replied she would tell them exactly what happened; the senior tutor looked skeptical and challenged, "Don't you think you are standing on shaky ground...
...last long. A student in my afternoon section who had not attended the dinner asked for an explanation so she could respond to her friends questions. During the course of the day several students greeted me with variants on "I can't believe you said this" which meant "please tell us you didn't say this." My office hours were spent calming students (as well as myself) over this matter...
...self-dramatizing "unmaskings." In these individuals, the urge to feed this appetite has grown stronger than the impulse to honestly scrutinize the object of the attack to see if it is warranted. Sociobiology has a few faint and superficial resemblances to "Social Darwinism," as far as I can tell, limited to the use of the term "Darwinism." Every other aspect is profoundly different. They bear the same relationship to each other as phrenology does to neuroanatomy. Anyone of candid intellect would have, on the basis of a few moments of investigation, satisfied himself of the difference and moved...
Record: 0-3. But the record doesn't tell the whole story. Both the B.U. game and the Yale game boiled down to third-period contests, and bad luck turned the tables on the icewomen in a skillfully played game against Brown...
...changed then either. The hotel bar, the only one functioning in town, can occasionally come up with a bottle of "33" beer imported from Viet Nam. The menu of the Samarki's dining room is limited to watery vegetable soup, chicken and rice. As a waitress admitted: "To tell you the truth, there is nothing, monsieur...