Word: tells
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...there not one Kohler among the automakers in Detroit with the guts to tell Reuther to go fly his socialistic kite...
...tiara ("My crown!") and throws a farewell bacchanal all over the lawn for the poor villagers. Fools, they don't know any better and go ahead and have a good time though not as good a time as Mrs. Halloran. What happens next day I had better not tell...
...accept the decision of the person wanting to leave, but if I think his position unwise I tell him so. If a man says he wants to withdraw to mature I tell him that's nonsense. He must have a more positive purpose. I often get students who want to be told why they shouldn't leave...
...midnight a year ago, Zind was drinking champagne and schnapps in an Offenburg bar when a stranger strolled in, and Zind invited him over. The pair got along famously until 2 a.m., and then Zind began to discourse on his favorite subject: his hatred of Jews. "I ought to tell you," said Kurt Lieser, 47, the stranger, "that I spent the war in a concentration camp, and am Jewish." "What?" Zind exclaimed. "That means they forgot to gas you, too? The Nazis did not gas enough Jews." Two bar companions stepped in to prevent a fight, as Zind shouted...
...hard to tell what Christopher Fry's The Firstborn is about. The overall impression is of far-of solid stone-hewn figures in a somehow intensely pregnant atmosphere, speaking heavily, as from a tomb...