Word: telle
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What did he intend to do? "I did a lot of traveling around the country last fall," he said. "I may even get on the train again and make another tour around the country. If I get on that train, I'm going to tell the people how their Government is getting along-and I know how to tell them...
...trial in Moscow in 1938 Genrikh Yagoda, hard-boiled head of the OGPU, said: "Citizen judges, I want to tell [you] how a man who spent thirty years in the party and worked a great deal, stumbled [and] fell ... I have committed heinous crimes. I realize this. It is hard to live after such crimes . . . But it is terrible to die with such a stigma. Even from behind bars I would like to see the further flour-ishings of the country I betrayed...
...Pigs. Things at home were fine. "You know, the Nicaraguan has a tremendous heart. If you do something for him, you can lead him around by the nose. If I tell one of these that I'll give him a pig if he'll fatten ten pigs for me, I'll come back and find one pig fat and the rest skinny. So I tell these guys that I'll give 'em a pig, but don't tell them which one. Then all the pigs...
...Dialectical Murder." That was too much for Strand. "Why," he demanded, "should a chemist bother to stir up such a controversy in the field of genetics? I can tell you. It is because he goes right down the party line without any noticeable deviation, and is an active protagonist...
...first painted Joan's story in a picture book designed to make better patriots of French youngsters. "Open this book, my dear children," he wrote in 1896, "with piety, in memory of the humble peasant girl who is the patron saint of France . . . Her story will tell you that in order to conquer, you must believe you will conquer. Remember this on the day when your country will have need of all your courage." In 1911, he finished the six Joan paintings...