Word: telling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Along with success came a rapid move toward political conservatism. In his Ames speech, as elsewhere, he produced a litany of what average voters have been saying to him. "They tell me they want the ultimate downfall of Soviet tyranny everywhere, including the Soviet Union," he declares. "They want to return to a time when husbands love their wives and wives love their husbands, a time when children can pray in school again...
Ramos, who talked softly and slowly in her testimony and appeared extremely weak, said Bernstein insisted that her symptoms were imaginary and the result of mental illness, even though she pleaded with him to tell her "what is happening to my body, what is going...
Deep down, though, even interns know stapling doesn't provide a wealth of cognitive exercise. When it comes time to tell resume-readers about summer experience, terminology becomes important...
...seven were vehement in defending the N.E.A. against the harsh attacks of Education Secretary Bennett, who shortly before the forum called the union the "most misnamed organization in America." Senator Albert Gore promised that if he won the presidency he would call Bennett on election night and "tell him to clean out his desk." At the Republican forum in the afternoon, Congressman Kemp charged, "This morning it ! was pretty clear the Democrats were speaking for a special interest...
Writing a novel about slavery in the U.S. would seem to be a fail-safe endeavor. The audience for such a book is already converted: the evil of owning men, women and children as chattel is shamefully obvious to everyone, and the heroes and villains are easy to tell apart. But it is precisely the contemporary consensus on human bondage that makes serious fiction on this subject so rare and so difficult to achieve. Imaginative literature at its best does not reinforce received opinions but disturbs them, puts them to the test of experience relived. And what is obvious...