Word: tells
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...such brassy clubs as Manhattan's Copacabana. Does that mean she plans to stick entirely to pop songs? Not at all, says Ella. "I sing like I feel. Sometimes some of the fellas say, 'What's the matter, Ella, you goin' square?' And I tell them, 'I'm not goin' square, I'm going versatile...
...Ness monster breathing fire to light a Scotsman's cigarette. American cowboys peddled Scotch whisky in Spanish, and an African witch doctor praised British beer. Victims of auto accidents emerged with their shirts clean because they had been washed with France's Pax soap. "You can always tell the country of origin without a catalogue, even if you don't spot the language." said Judge Thomas P. Olesen of Denmark. "French commercials are artificial. The English always have humor and typical British understatement. Italian commercials have good music. Germans are good but boring. Latin Americans feature...
Israelites on the Plain. In the land of the Bible, diggers probed into ruins and legends that were old when Britons did not exist and Romans were savages. On the narrow coastal plain of southern Israel stands a rounded mound 100 ft. high covering 50 acres. It is a "tell," a heap of debris, hiding the remains of an ancient city. Israel is lumpy with tells, but this one is more famous than most because Archaeologist William F. Albright...
...Besides," Bender added, "there are all kinds of ways you can tell discriminatory evidence other than pictures. Personal names, interviews, and the name of the applicant's school may all be used for discriminatory purposes if a College wishes to do so." In some cases, he pointed out, pictures could even be of help to a student from an "unusual background" who might not have had the opportunities of his fellow applicants...
...just occasionally, among themselves, they tell their thoughts. "I know what they say about white, Protestant Southerners coming from the Bible belt, and all that, but I tell you, this is just not our kind of people up here," one confided...