Word: tells
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Angles. In Derby, England, Police Sergeant Joseph Shorthouse stood up to give testimony, said: "I swear to tell the truth, the whole truth and anything but the truth...
...little cluster of three hamlets that makes up the village of Zichen Zussen Bolder, they still tell an old story about a horseman who was galloping across the fields and suddenly disappeared into the earth, never to be seen again. Six years ago three village houses abruptly slid into the ground. Only last August, on the day of the village fair, the roof of the Catholic church collapsed...
...fact, I got my last spanking when I was 17." It was administered by strong-willed Mama Boone with her ever-ready sewing-machine belt, "both of us leaning over the bathtub." For this walloping and many before, Pat is grateful: "We all thought Mama the greatest, and I tell her now that she can spank me any time she likes...
...Galloping into London for a personal theater appearance, TV's Hugh (Wyatt Earp) O'Brian was bushwhacked by the critics. They spoofed his six-gun William Tell act of shooting balloons off a man's head, charged that some other hombre backstage reached out with a long pin. "Course I shoot the gun," drawled the punctured marshal. "I just don't use live ammunition." But even worse to the critics was Earp's de-Westernized act of crooning love songs in top hat and tails, plus some other "sissy stuff" of smooching with leggy gals...
...heavy toll charges Alexander Graham Bell levied for his invention was a minor art form: good letter writers have no telephone. Nor should they have much modesty. Belloc had neither. Instead he had wit and character. A grumpy, opinionated man ("I want to tell the new Pope one or two things. I hope he believes them"), he also had a well-polished ego, solid as a brass in a church floor...