Word: tells
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...royalties from the sale of Pasternak's Doctor Zhivago must amount to a great deal. Can you tell me if he will be allowed to accept this money or will his stinking government keep...
...ramrodded through bills such as the Taft-Hartley Act and tax-cutting measures. Promised -he says-the vice presidential nomination in 1948. Halleck took Indiana votes to Tom Dewey only to see Dewey nod to California's liberal Governor Earl Warren. Halleck has never lost a chance to tell Dewey that the 1948 vote would have gone Republican had the second man on the ticket, no matter what his leaning, been a real fighter for the party...
...fight." Ike suggested that Martin keep on coming to the weekly White House legislative conferences. "No, that I can't do," replied Martin. Said the President: "But I'm inviting you. Why can't you?" Replied Martin: "I'll come down and tell you-some...
...agree with people who tell the student, 'you are overcrowded, even if you don't realize it,'" said Leighton. "The minute the students do not cast their dollar votes for more deconversion, I will be for gradual expansion...
...preceding string of incidents that show Author White in his liveliest vein, e.g., an Indian amateur production of Samson and Delilah (featured as Delilah and Simpson, or The Strong Man of Whiskers Reduced by Reason of Passions). Another high point is the long-dreaded moment when the missionaries tell their adopted son the truth about his parentage-and the eight-year-old, instead of fracturing his psyche, exclaims with new-found pride: "I got two Dads...