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Word: telling (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...There, over there," says Baker. "That's a hen feather. It's easy to tell hens from gobblers. The gobblers are blacker and have beards. You need any toilet paper, let me know," he says, carefully producing about a dozen neatly folded sheets. "I never come out here without it. Amazing, isn't it, a real challenge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Playing for the Edge | 2/13/1989 | See Source »

...hearings. "We've got to make sure Europe is open to all," he says. "If that means aggressively enforcing our own trade laws, so be it. I hope it doesn't come to that. It's going to take some skilled diplomacy to get the edge on that one. Tell you the truth, I can't wait to get my hands on this stuff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Playing for the Edge | 2/13/1989 | See Source »

...college basketball player in the country what the most important achievement is, and he'll tell you it's winning a championship," Berkoff said. "Nobody remembers your regular season record if you win it all. Just ask Kansas. If we can take the Easterns, I'll guarantee that nobody will be talking about losses in November to Columbia. Nobody at all." "The Berkoff Watch...

Author: By Joseph Kaufman, | Title: Berkoff Breaks American, NCAA Record | 2/12/1989 | See Source »

...Cornell's a very strong team," Tri-Captain Jen White said. "They played with a lot of heart in the first two periods. You could tell they really wanted it. Between periods, Coach [John Dooley] didn't yell at us about the little things--he told us that we had to play with more emotion in order...

Author: By Mia Kang, | Title: Icewomen Record Two Shutouts | 2/12/1989 | See Source »

ONCE they find out that I am a conservative, Harvardite liberals sometimes ask me what being a conservative on a liberal campus is like. Their cheerfully cynical attitude is something like this: "so tell us, what's it like to be a blind person in a community of people...

Author: By Bill Tsingos, | Title: Rethinking the `C'-Word | 2/12/1989 | See Source »

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