Word: tells
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After the Crucifixion, it took Christ three days to liquidate Hell. We all know, but of course we don't tell the priests...
Carpenter said that it was too early to tell about the success of the delicate eye operations, and Barghoorn's capacity to teach Biology 208 this spring is in doubt. If he is unable to give the course, Carpenter stated that it would be bracketed this year...
Surely, Heroes of Shipka is valuable not only as an exercise in the art of film-making, but also as an example of how effective mythmaking can inculcate patriotism by means of an almost Orwellian warping of history. And it is surely more exciting than what the text-books tell us of treaty-making and spheres of influence. Fiction in this case is more persuasive than fact...
...dock-front gunman, kept on a $300-per-month retainer by New York gangster brass. In 1954 Burke was hired to machine gun Joseph ("Specs") O'Keefe, stoolie suspect in Boston's Brink's holdup case, flubbed the job as wounded O'Keefe lived to tell all (TIME, Jan. 23, 1956), but made a daring escape from Boston's Charles Street Jail, hid out at Folly Beach, S.C. until in 1955 the law closed...
...this point, the strain of running a longer race than is his custom began to tell on Anderson. He faltered briefly and was immediately passed by all four of the men who until then had been running behind him. In the last lap, however, he managed to muster a finishing sprint sufficient to overtake Jenkins and he narrowly missed catching Lockerbie...