Word: tells
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...desolate quarter of Jerusalem, I met a schoolteacher cousin of Arafat, who said she would recollect what she could and tell me if 1 would come to her apartment in a few days, but only after dark. Two nights later, we met in her house at the end of an unlighted stony track at the edge of Jerusalem. She spoke willingly, but when I asked her why she insisted on seeing me at night, she said only, 'It is Ramadan and we fast during the day; I could not serve you coffee before dark...
Whether he did it out of sheer peversity or out of some deeper understanding of the psychology of international economics will probably never he known. But, although it is still really too soon to tell, it seems to be working...
...hard to tell which is greater--the enthusiasm that rookie coach Harrison shows toward Kanuth and Hardy, or the respect they have...
...Harrison does all the things a coach should do," Hardy added. "You can tell he knows what he's doing, so you respect him and go out to the best of your ability for him," he said...
...that most criminals are not caught makes the caught ones feel that getting captured was their only mistake. Worse, they learn that money talks: most defendants cannot afford the skilled lawyers who spring rich clients. So the defendants plead guilty without trial and are sentenced by judges who cannot tell how many years will suffice for "rehabilitation." The criminals are caged in prisons without job training, suffer sexual deprivation, and eventually are dumped back into a society that hates "convicts...