Word: tells
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...energy. When the second of the day's two conference sessions ran past 8 o'clock, he begged off attending a black-tie dinner given by NATO Secretary-General Paul-Henri Spaak. Rumors that the President was ill promptly swept through the press corps. Grinned Ike: "Tell those gentlemen I am a 9:30 or 10 o'clock boy tonight...
Pleas in Private. But for most of his stay in Paris, the President was immersed in the problems of the present. He had already conferred privately with British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan. France's Felix Gaillard had called to tell the President that practically every Frenchman is convinced that the U.S. has covert designs on North Africa, particularly on the Sahara's oil. Shocked, Ike told Gaillard emphatically that the U.S. had no intention of supplanting French interests in North Africa, or of interfering in the war in Algeria...
...originated and produces the show, is a onetime disk jockey, radio writer and veteran of Madison Avenue ad agencies who fled to Texas 3½ years ago, and spends most of his time running a Dallas ad business. Says he: "This may sound corny, but the authorities tell us we've actually helped criminals change their ways...
...missile-age warfare, a military commander will have only minutes to launch his rockets before a target moves on-or attacks him first. Last week the Army Signal Corps announced an ingenious electronic device that will tell him whenever a target appears: the RP-71, a flying robot that can take off from a launching rig, spy on the enemy from altitudes up to 3,000 ft. at more than 200 m.p.h...
...Brown Bear, Mister Dog, Shy Little Kitten, Snuggly Bunny, Thidwick, the Big-Hearted Moose. Not that animals are new in fables, but now nearly all writers of children's stories seem to suggest that 1) the animal kingdom has become an animal democracy where no one would ever tell a skunk that he smells bad, for fear the poor fellow might feel like a second-class citizen; 2) animals all live together in cuddly fellowship; 3) it is more fun to be animal than human, contrary to centuries of civilized thought; 4) animals are people, only with more hair...