Word: tells
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Everybody who has pledged and not appeared has been contacted, but Rothenberg said that he could not tell whether the drive would reach its goal. On the basis of past campaigns, the chairman expected about 1100 of the originally pledged donors to donate...
...like to give public readings. One very seldom achieves the proper rapport with the audience. You can tell in ten minutes, you know, if an audience is responding. When I emerged on the stage at Chicago University, it was like an arctic blast." But, he amended, it's something everyone should...
...cosmic questions, Mr. Capote plays the famous writer's familiar con-game. To hear the successful writer tell it, they've never heard of Jung or symbols or aesthetic theories, and they profess an admirable ignorance when confronted with such things. "I am merely trying to tell a story in the best way I can," said Capote. "Writers don't think consciously about symbols. I doubt whether Kafka ever thought about the symbolic significances of his stories. He was just trying to tell a story...
...swaddling the boy in scarlet robes, confining him to a room hung with scarlet drapes, claiming that the color's influence turned the trick. The 17th century court physician had less brass. When France's young Louis XIV caught syphilis, the doctors were too spineless to tell him (or anyone else). They also disguised the Sun King's measles by reporting that the royal body was triumphantly expelling subversive tapeworms...
...girls know so little about racing yet. We are thankful that the very famous 'Hotspur' has agreed to come and tell us his secrets." A few days ago these frightfully polite words, rich with Britain's broadest bazaar-opening vowels, issued from blonde Dair Marr, 17, as she introduced Ewr Curling, the Daily Telegraph's horse expert, to 30 of the finest blooded fillies in London. Dair & Co. had cause to hear a betting and breeding lecture. As students at the Cygnets House, the most exclusive finishing school in England, they must learn to "talk politics...