Word: tells
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Gardner and Frank Sinatra dealt with the "gentlemen of the press!" It happened in Australia, but it should happen here-and more often. It is heartening then to see two people such as Ava and Frankie stand up to the arrogant reporters and photographers. When they tell them off, these two of my favorite people are, I am sure, speaking for millions...
...Vice President Nixon in Lima and Caracas one year ago. Kubitschek's idea man and delegate, Augusto Frederico Schmidt, frankly sees the committee as one more chance for Latin America to play Scheherazade to the U.S.'s sultan. "Every night," explained Schmidt, "we have to tell the U.S. a story so that we can continue to live. Perhaps after a thousand and one nights a happy marriage will result...
...imams heard Sociologist Ali Abdel Wahad tell them that suppression of women in the Arab world is a distortion of the Koran's teaching. They heard Mohamed Madani, dean of the Islamic Law Faculty, declare that "not a single phrase in the Koran is against science." To this tradition-bound university, such lectures are unprecedented. Al-Azhar, in many ways the spiritual center of the Mohammedan world, is in the midst of the most drastic renaissance in its long history...
Maid: When my bills are all paid ' (gasp), I want what's left to go to [my daughter]. Tell her I know I was selfish (gasp), and if I loved her too much, I'm sorry, but I didn't mean to cause her any trouble...
...tell these fellows, 'Don't wait 20 years. Tell me what you would do if you were in my chair.' " Chuck Percy started climbing to that chair almost from the time he learned to walk. Son of the Bell & Howell office manager, he began selling magazines at the age of five, at New Trier high school he held four jobs at once. At the University of Chicago ('41), he ran a business that grossed $150,000 a year selling supplies to fraternities, and thus was, recalls former Chancellor Robert M. Hutchins, the richest kid who ever...