Word: tells
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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According to the poll, he himself will likely tell you that, on the whole, his loss of all traditional religious faith did not substantially alter his ethical principles, nor does he feel at all obliged by his convictions to persuade the pious to abandon their beliefs. Incredibly enough, well over a third of those who either flatly reject all belief in God or else hold that there are no adequate grounds for deciding the question, nevertheless think that "on the whole, the Church stands for the best in human life," though it suffers from certain minor human shortcomings...
...local pubs in an attempt to substantiate their stories. Several Americans were skeptical: Harvard's Tom Blodgett, a pole vaulter, observed, "They're just trying to psych us. The ones we see drinking and smoking aren't the one's well be running against--but they don't tell us that...
...tell me the name of the little girl from the U.S. ice troupe whom Khrushchev is holding and everyone is looking at admiringly [May 18]? Could this be pretty little Robbi La Londe, the youngest American professional ice skater, who has been skating since she was 19 months...
...sooner said than answered. Up popped Wisconsin's talky Senator William Proxmire, who has made a happy headline career out of baiting Leader Johnson (TIME, April 20) by demanding Democratic policy meetings. Said Proxmire: "I challenge Senators to tell us what our policy is on the budget, what our policy is on interest rates, what our policy is on taxation, or what our policy is on almost any issue. No one can tell me." While Republican Leader Everett Dirksen gleefully yielded five minutes of his own allotted floor time so that the Democratic squabble could continue, Johnson scoffed...
...promoters had other things to say when the jocks were out of range. "Some of these guys actually believe they're God," said one. Explained another: "Suppose a D.J. calls New York and says he wants to see the city. What are you going to tell him-to pay for it himself? You pay for his hotel and his meals and his liquor, and if he wants a girl you pay for that. An average New York weekend will cost the record company $500 to $1,000, and if you don't pay it there's another...