Word: telling
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...What is in the book, sir?" Liman inquired. North began to explain that it contained notes that he and his attorney, Brendan Sullivan, had prepared. Sullivan abruptly cut his client off: "Don't tell him what it includes." He angrily asserted that Liman had no right to know...
...disagreed with any of the things that I was doing." Instead, Casey told him "how they might be done better." The two "communed" regularly, North explained, in a relationship that he understood was not to be "something that was publicly bandied about." North did not, it was apparent, even tell his chain-of-command bosses, Poindexter and former National Security Adviser Robert McFarlane, how much influence Casey had over the activities they ostensibly supervised...
...trying to pass the buck here, O.K.?" North declared angrily. "I did a lot of things and I want to stand up and say that I'm proud of them." But he denied acting alone as a "loose cannon . . . People used to walk up to me and tell me what a great job I was doing." Among them, he declared, was Secretary of State George Shultz, who opposed the Iran deals but, claimed North, "knew in sufficiently eloquent terms what I had done" for the contras. Shortly before he was fired, North said, Shultz took him aside at a party...
When word arrived that Calvin Coolidge was dead, she asked her fellow wits at the Algonquin Round Table, "How can they tell?" When Dorothy Parker died in 1967, nobody doubted that a void had been left in the ranks of major American humorists. Parker's friend and fellow writer Lillian Hellman arranged to have her ashes placed in a New York mortuary. But after Hellman's death three years ago, Parker's remains were moved to a safe in the Manhattan office of her executor, Attorney Paul O'Dwyer, who hoped that someone, possibly a distant relative, might step forward...
...television sets in 1,700 homes record which channels are tuned in and when the set is on. Meanwhile, viewers in 2,600 other homes fill out diaries on who watches various programs. Advertisers and broadcasters have long recognized failings in this system. The meters, for example, could not tell when a program played to an empty room, and diaries were difficult to keep...