Word: tells
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have a shortage of goods?" raged one officer. Replied Erhard jubilantly: "I have not relaxed rationing; I have abolished it." To his countrymen he proclaimed: "The only ration ticket now is the mark." He asked for an interview with U.S. General Lucius Clay. "Herr Erhard," said Clay, "my advisers tell me this is a terrible mistake." Answered Erhard: "General Clay, pay no attention. My advisers tell me the same thing...
Nobody can tell for sure what it is or why, but the yeastiest dish on TV this season is served up about midnight every Tuesday when the Popocatepetl of party-givers, Elsa Maxwell, rises onstage at NBC's Tonight to barter inanities with cheeky, clef-chinned Jack Paar. To Elsa, Host Paar is "My King of Jest," and Jack calls Elsa "Queen of the Wild Frontier." "Elsa's not afraid to say what's on my mind," explains Paar as, with wide-eyed innocence, he eggs her on to gossip haphazardly about Perry Como ("He puts...
...daughter, 8, and swimming pool in suburban Bronxville, N.Y. "I'm so lovable," Jack says. ". . . There have been all kinds of bets that I won't last. I told them if it is a miracle and I'm still here after Jan. 1, who performed it? Tell me that...
...hail one of our patrols," he said. From then until show's end, day and night, Shafty swam and swam and swam; the camera caught him barechested, fighting currents, rolling almost unconscious in the swirl, negotiating dangerous reefs, coughing, stumbling through the underbrush. "Let me tell you," says Crewman Maguire, "there's a guy." Soon some friendly natives were smuggling Shafty to safety and a rescue team. After a few more dips, the whole crew climbed aboard a U.S. PT boat, uncorked a "medicinal" bottle of hooch and sang Jesus Loves...
...India's Minocher Masani pointed to the success of India's Forum of Free Enterprise−a voluntary association of enlightened businessmen to tell the local people how responsible, creative capitalism works in other countries...