Word: tellings
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...call up your teacher who embarrassed you in front of your 3rd grade class and tell him how wrong...
...thousand years in copal? – must’ve had a tough year in Kenya. But what captured FlyBy’s eyes was Mel, the girl-next-door, the loyal best friend, the one you call up at 3 AM in the morning to tell her about all your girl troubles. Well, she’s clearly got her own set of woes this time...
...always seemed to me a rather empty one: a hollow phrase, to be invoked only by nostalgic museum retrospectives, ghostwritten memoirs by former first ladies, and parents straining to persuade the kiddies that Grandpa’s still worth talking to. (“Ignore the drool, he can tell you all about Iwo Jima...
...shots going in before the buzzer sounds, every single play in baseball requires an umpire’s personal call: Ball or strike, safe or out. While baseball has a rulebook and a defined strike zone, it is easily the most subjective thing in sports. Any player can tell you that no two strike zones of an umpire are the same. Thus, this problem was one that so far could not be broached by technology; the instant replay of a pitch makes no difference to the umpire calling that pitch. This also changed with TV coverage of baseball games with...
...children in Asia with products that kill," says Bangorn Ritthiphakdee, director of the Southeast Asia Tobacco Control Alliance, a civil-society group, referring to attendees of Tabinfo 2009, a three-day conference organized by Tobacco Reporter, a U.S.-based magazine. "Their presence is a nightmare. We came to tell them they are not welcome here." (Watch a video about France's smoking...