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Word: tellin (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...There is no doubt," claims Burke, "that women are much worse drivers than men. They spend all their time lookin' around at things, and none of it lookin' at the road. And when they have some one else in the car with 'em," Burke grins sadly, "there's no tellin' what they're goin...

Author: By Paul W. Mandel, | Title: "Wait for the traffic light, please. . .? | 1/7/1949 | See Source »

Your London correspondent has wronged Will Lawther, president of the National Union of Mineworkers, and local pride. You give him either a cockney or a North Midlands accent when you make him say: "Just fancy 'avin' John L. Lewis comin' over here and tellin' us 'ow to do our bloody jobs. I'd say to 'im, 'When you take our two-foot-nine seams and give us your eight-foot seams, we might listen to yer' " [TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 20, 1948 | 9/20/1948 | See Source »

...steady work, but I just wants to tell you, any time you get in a tight, us is here to do what we can.' " Mrs. Rawlings asked how long it was since Martha had worked in the grove. "Sugar," said Martha, "I got no way o' tellin' the years. The years comes and the years goes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Enchanted Land | 3/23/1942 | See Source »

...better hold my jaw, and shortly when there was more Eyeties I didn't say a word. 'How many of their destroyers off there?' he sways. 'Twenty-seven, sir,' I says. So he bloody near blew me off the bridge for not tellin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: AT SEA: Old Splash Guts | 9/15/1941 | See Source »

...Stukas, it was a matter of lookin' up at the Stukas to see a patch of sky. 'There's a bluenose [1,000-lb. bomb] comin' down two points off the starboard bow,' he says to the captain, like he was tellin' him there was a small school of flying fish ahead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: AT SEA: Old Splash Guts | 9/15/1941 | See Source »

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