Word: telle
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...BURNSIDE, 49, is a professor of political science at Marshall College in Huntington, W.Va., who failed to win in 1946. This time, with coal miners out in full cry to show John L. Lewis that he could not tell them how to vote, Burnside and three other Democrats toppled Republican incumbents...
...like him a Liberal, fell out with the dictator in 1944. Nicaragua, Pasos felt, could do with a little more democracy; after a time the Liberals called a convention to talk about it. Some of the cautious ones went to Tacho to get his views. They got them. "Tell Carlos Pasos that I know that twice last night at the home of Castro Wassmer he read the speech he has prepared, and if he insists on reading it at the convention, let him not forget to come armed. I am not the man to let myself be overthrown by speeches...
...riders, he selects four to train for competition. Says he: "I tell my men what to do once. If they disobey me twice I tell them, 'You are very good friend but you are no good-go somewhere else.' " His men get up at 6 a.m. to start the day in the saddle; they also study the anatomy of the horse, the foreign riding styles (especially Italian, French and German), keep fit with fencing, basketball and swimming. But no matter how hard they try, the pupils never excel the teacher...
...editor of Harper's, and far be it from me to pretend to know their criteria. But one outstanding difference between Clement B. Wood's prizewinner and nearly every story the Advocate or Signature printed during the year was that in Wood's piece you could always tell who was talking, you could understand what they were saying, and when people weren't talking, you knew what was happening and where, while in the other stories you could hardly ever be sure of any of these things. In other words, Wood's story was easy to follow while the others...
Even the touch football artists could tell from the shouts that the Varsity was building a bonfire. And ironically enough, just as Art Valpey's team was firing up for the game, the remains of the "B" on the Stadium turf were being burned up by the maintainence crew...