Word: tellings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...next door to tell people and get a hug," she said...
While administrators at several schools have recently tried to downplay the impact of the U.S. News & World Report's annual college rankings, the numbers tell a different story...
...similarly with the great environmentalist writers of this century--Aldo Leopold, Edward Abbey, Doug Peacock and many more like them--who feel compelled to tell us about their lives to an extent that often becomes deadening. Peacock has spent the years since his return from a deeply traumatic stint in Vietnam photographing and following brown bears from unimaginably unsafe distances: what lurks behind Peacock's lengthy exposition of his Grizzly Years, though, is not the implication that his set of unusual experiences are unique but that somehow they partake of the universally shared history of the relationship between...
...England, 'wicked' has resurfaced as an intensifier or term of approval, which for someone my age is really weird," she told listeners last month. "'Sketchy,' when applied to a new acquaintance, is definitely not a compliment--though what it is is not clear to me. My students tell me on the DL, or 'down low,' that I'm really random. Whatever...
...Over the long haul," she adds, "students trusted me to tell the truth, and to deal with issues honestly as I saw them...