Word: telling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Nobody heard exactly what Ike told her, but apparently it had something to do with the kind of medical care he got during his illness. A moment later she dashed over to the President's physician, Major General Howard Snyder, 78, and bussed him heartily. Shouted Ike gaily: "Tell her I'm a Cupid...
...reminded of a story. It seems there was a man who needed a hearing aid, found that they cost between $200 and $800, "decided to make one himself, which he did. And he worked it with pretty good effect. So finally a man said to him, 'Now tell me, Bill, does this thing really work?' He says: 'Of course not, but it makes everybody talk louder...
...East Germany into a nation of oldsters; it is also creating a labor shortage in East Germany. Since 1949 more than 2,000,000 people have fled East Germany-more than three times the natural population increase. Says Willy Brandt: "When East Germans ask me what to do ... I tell them to stay as long as they can manage." His reason: the fear that if the population drain continues, the Russians may begin to resettle East Germany with other people, bringing the Slav tide to the edge of Berlin...
Roman Catholicism has had relatively little success in the Canadian North, says Marsh, partly because of the difficulty of attending Mass, partly because the Eskimo is an individualist. "He just won't let anyone tell him what to do. He doesn't readily subject himself to the discipline required of a Catholic." The Roman Catholic mission at Pond Inlet, Baffin Island, has not made a convert in 30 years, and the Eskimos of northern Quebec, which is well saturated with Catholic missionaries, are 98% Anglican...
...student periodical which does not deal with either crises of identity or last summer's libidinal souvenirs is a refreshing innovation. Good kiss-and-tell novels are always welcome, but it is fine to see that one of the Houses has found a way to publish deserving student academic writing. The Adams House Journal of the Social Sciences includes four essays by Adams House contributors, which purport to "represent outstanding work of fledgling scholars...