Word: tells
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Negro leaders about a possible bus boycott, charged them with vagrancy. Said Birmingham's police chief, Eugene Connor, who refused even to discuss the case with FBI agents: "I haven't got any damn apology to the FBI or anybody else. Maybe I just didn't tell the FBI what Rogers wanted me to tell them. Maybe that's why that jackass is yapping his brains...
...What I like about science," said the girl in the blue jumper, "is that if you learn what they tell you in class, and then put it down on an exam, you get an A. In something like English or history, you've got to put in more than they tell you to get an A. If you just get everything right they give...
...said the girl in the corner seat. "I'm taking this botany course, you know. You wouldn't think that would do you much good, but my advisor says that it helps a lot with your own children or if you're a Den Mother or something. You can tell them all the various flowers and trees and stuff when you're out on a walk...
...know, my botany teacher can even tell you what shrubs you should plant if you want to keep other people's kids out of your yard--it's really amazing...
...best, this machinery produces intellectual discipline. At its worst it becomes a "the tell'em, test'em, tell'em" theory, according to which the mind is likened to a sponge which can only be made pliable by soaking up some of the moist facts and concepts which the scholars annually pour over...