Word: tells
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hear them tell it last week, Mao Tse-tung was stepping serenely down from the most tedious of his five jobs, and Nikita Khrushchev was proclaiming some of the greatest victories in Soviet agricultural history...
...fortuneteller studied Kawamura's palm, said gravely: "You are indeed accursed. But I can tell you how to end all your troubles. Go to the little field that lies outside your home. There you will find a neglected grave, the burial place of an ancient samurai. His spirit is angry and is taking revenge on the nearest living person, and that happens to be you. It is necessary that you appease...
...radio telescopes can detect colliding galaxies (which give off powerful radio waves) at distances much greater than can be reached by an optical telescope. In a few years, improved vision should enable cosmographers to peer so far into space (or back into time) that they will be able to tell which kind of universe they are looking...
...four months he worked in solitude. "It is going badly," he would tell friends at his favorite café in Aix. "It is this salaud Velásquez. If at least he was an intelligent painter. But no, it is Velásquez, with all that implies of everything and of nothing...
...travels alone across Siberia, settles finally in a remote valley in North China, sets up a sort of motel for mule drivers ("the newspapers of North China") and has somebody tell them Bible stories while they eat. Meanwhile, she makes friends with the local mandarin (Donat), who gives her a civil service job as his Foot Inspector during the height of the campaign against binding the feet of female children; after that, the cheerful, hardworking, God-fearing young woman is known for miles around as "Jen-Ai" (The One Who Loves People). She fights for the rights of women...