Word: tells
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...accepted this version and formally approved the marriage. An hour later, Michiko and her parents were at the Imperial Palace to pay their respects to the Emperor and Empress, and Akihito, dressed now in ancient court costume, went off to the three Shinto shrines on the palace grounds to tell his ancestors about his betrothal. Michiko herself went on TV to tell the Japanese people what she liked about the prince. "A clean, sincere man," she said, "whom I know I can trust...
Networks may trumpet the latest figures in full-page ads; Madison Avenue may study them in a grey flannel funk. But for the average televiewer, ratings remain a mathematical mystery. Do they really tell whether one show is better than another? Or more popular? Or both? The answer, said Oklahoma's Democratic Senator Mike Monroney last week, is that the ratings add up to a statistical tyranny that fleeces the public of quality shows...
...time of day anywhere on the earth's surface with accessory sets of clocks. For the four Cowles newspapers, the globes have a heart-of-America symbolism that is apt and obvious: far more than any Midwestern rival, the papers emphasize reporting and editorials that attempt to tell how the world is spinning-and what time it is. Says earnest, globe-trotting John Cowles, publisher of the Minneapolis papers: "I admit it-we have something approaching a sense of mission...
...Chinese intervened in Korea: "Yes, we know that Communist China is an aggressor, a violator of the United Nations Charter . . . But it is the government of the overwhelming majority of the Chinese land and people. We might as well recognize this fact. And if we want to tell Mao Tse-tung he is a bad boy ... we shall have to recognize his government, ultimately, to do it. Not today, maybe-but eventually...
...wise surgeon," warned a wise 13th century surgeon, "will refrain from stealing while he is in attendance on a patient." Other maxims for medieval physicians, who found Hippocrates rather hoary: impress the patient by diagnosing his condition before examination, always tell relatives the case is very grave, assume that a fast pulse only means worry over your fee. Last week British physicians were chuckling over dozens of such memories, recalled in Call the Doctor, by Ernest S. Turner, a frequent Punch contributor whose previous social histories have deflated the egos of British reformers, admen and Blimps...