Word: retold
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...million refugees from the eastern regions of the country were on the move toward the west. Terrified by the tales of rape and pillage that had accompanied the advance of Soviet forces, they were trying to find safety behind American and British lines. The horror stories, told and retold and retold again, needed no Nazi propaganda to spread like wildfire. They certainly were heard in the town in which we lived: Gablonz to Germans, Jablonec nad Nisou to Czechs, in what was then known as the Sudetenland, a border territory with a mixed German-Czech population that Hitler had grabbed...
...working squarely in the tradition of other zealots who promulgate such tales to support their antigovernment agenda. Environmentalists have been sounding the alarm about such so-called horror stories for years, but tragically, these spurious accounts are being recycled into policymaking, and in some cases the falsehoods are retold even after the truth is known. Thank you for blowing...
...named Teddy who got stoned and fell out of the second deck at Tiger Stadium on their wedding afternoon. Somebody else fell or was pushed from a hotel window, landing on a mounted policeman, killing the policeman and his horse. Good stuff but old stuff, not dramatized but simply retold...
...varying intensity, the fears have assumed a pervasive, even obsessive dimension. One store reported a sudden boom in $2,000 steel-canopy beds capable of withstanding "an entire collapsing roof." Conversations are dominated by the quake. True tales of the fateful moment at 4:31 a.m. are told and retold: how in one Sherman Oaks home a water bed went wild, flipped its occupant against the ceiling and then heaved him against the wall as though to suffocate...
Powell's story is one that has been retold many times. Born in Harlem on April 5, 1937, he grew up in the South Bronx and graduated from the City College of New York in 1958. Afterwards, he became a second lieutenant in the Army through ROTC...