Word: tells
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...figure there's just no sense arguing with them. They've just got no idea how things are down there. They try to sit up North here and tell us how to get along. No sense arguing with them. Just ignore them...
Cross could tell from straightening out a piece of the tightly rolled leather that it must be a text from Deuteronomy. The bargaining went on for three sessions, and the price slowly descended to about $5,000. Then Cross and Saad hurried into the British Bank of the Middle East, just outside Jerusalem's ancient Damascus Gate, stepped nervously out again into the teeming, clanking tangle of Arabs and animals in Jericho Road with $5,000 in Jordanian pounds, and hurried back for the final transaction...
Billed as the "Bridge Battle of the Century," the four-week Lenz-Culbertson match was the most publicized card joust in history. The wire services had top reporters covering the match from start to finish, papers put out extras on results, and readers who could not tell a doubleton from a double followed the daily point score. Lenz and Jacoby got off to an early lead, but at the end of the 150th rubber the Culbertson partnership was ahead by 8,980 points, and Lenz paid up. That ended any small remaining doubt about whether Culbertson...
When the moon is not in the sky, the Navy's dish will be at the service of peacetime scientists. By bringing information from as much as 6 billion light years away, it may tell the size and age of the universe. It may tell whether the universe exploded from a center a few billion years ago, or whether it is still being created and continues indefinitely in all directions in both time and space...
...duty. When Marie invites him upstairs for a meal a few days later, his mind fairly boils with mingled hopes and doubts. For though "there was once a time, a golden age, when such an invitation could be taken to mean one thing only," nowadays a man never can tell. So, while Marie cooks, her visitor paces. Staring through the window, he spots "two slack dead pairs of men's socks" on a laundry cord-and instantly he is jealous...