Word: telling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...owns a summer house on an island in Maine, where he played tennis almost every day last August. Serious tennis. Once, a much younger man whom Nitze had just trounced in singles asked him how he kept so fit at his age. "My body," he replied, "does what I tell...
Roberts' attorney, Colin King, told the jury that hundreds of lawsuits have been filed in the past 15 years over eye injuries resulting from exploding soft-drink caps. Some beverage companies, such as Canada Dry and Schweppes, put labels on their products to tell consumers that they should open the bottles carefully. But, complains King, "many companies still aren't warning people to point the things away from your face when you open them...
...write to you," Sharon's tinny voice sings plaintively. "Something really scared me/ when I saw it on the news./ A story about a little girl/ beaten black and blue." After imploring Jesus to come to the rescue of abused children, the song concludes, "Dear Mr. Jesus,/ please tell me what to do./ And please don't tell my daddy/ but my mommy hits...
...Listen, lunatic," I began calmly, "you are stark raving mad, and I will tell you why...Christies, UHS, Store 24, CVS, RIX, Sages..." For 10 minutes I rattled off names of toothpaste-selling stores that I could spit on from my room. I was dragged away amidst chants "Satan's Child!" and "Down with Rationality...
That probably wouldn't be the best slogan for Gary Hart, who also is attempting a return from the electoral netherworld. While Nixon resurrected himself by assiduously courting fellow Republicans and trying to make amends for past behavior, the "New Gary" is an entirely unrepentant fellow who didn't tell even his best friends that he was going to re-enter the fray. Hart seems determined to become the Sidney Biddle Barrows of presidential politics, unremorsefully parlaying shameful private conduct into public acclaim...