Word: tell
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...living in New York City. We didn't have any phone service and we didn't have any mail. Like a lot of writers do, I started to write in a voice that I missed. I was really homesick - I couldn't even call my family and tell them I was fine. So I started writing in the voice of Demetrie, the maid I had growing up. She later became the character of Aibileen [in The Help]. I sent the story to my mother and she was sort of like, "Hmm, that's good." As I wrote, I found that...
...course, with the taxpayers owning the largest banks, it’s hard to tell the difference between jobs in government and jobs in finance,” Chun quipped...
...When I was coming out I was so afraid,” said Kathryn A. Willmore, former vice president of MIT and longtime friend of Dobkin’s. “And then I would put on Alix’s songs and they would tell me that I was moving to exactly the right place...
...while maintaining a repoire with his audience. When speaking of his grassroots campaign style, he jokingly implored students to “skip some classes” in order to volunteer for his campaign. Accompanied by laughter, he augmented his statement by advising students not to “tell your parents or professors...
...Democratic enthusiasm for President Barack Obama’s liberal domestic agenda—particularly for a government-run health insurance program—could wane after the results of the gubernatorial elections next Tuesday in Virginia and New Jersey. GOP victories in either state will tell Democrats in red states and districts that support for Obama’s policies is risky to their political health...