Word: tells
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...would be honest with my sons, as my sons are with me. I would then tell--in the time honored and annoying tradition of parents--that morality and reality are frequently out of phase, and that the moral issue is complex when the opponent is prepared to be immoral. But having talked with and listened to many students, I could also tell him that there is a new generation in the United States and many other countries which rejects the old premises of war and diplomacy. They want to see more emphasis placed on human and personal values. And they...
Fourth, we are paying insufficient attention to the growing distrust between the races. We cannot live as a nation divided--and we must have the courage to tell the American people just that...
After Bridwell's decision of last February, a relieved Cambridge sighed that at least the final, irrevocable decision on the Belt had been delayed for two years. But at the moment, no one can tell if it'll even be that long before the BPR makes the decision to send the bulldozers crawling up Brookline...
...Tape. To tell her sentimental and occasionally gruesome little stories, Duras uses all the fashionable techniques of the nouveau roman. Thus L'Amante Anglaise consists of three tape-recorded interviews conducted by an anonymous questioner and presented without comment, narrative or description. The first is an expository conversation with a cafe owner; in the second, Claire's husband Pierre gives his version of the crime; in the third, the murderess herself speaks. A typical session goes like this...
...altogether too early to tell whether he will succeed. To most of the people in the House he is still that beligerent stranger. There is also the question of his stamina, or at least of his continuing interest. For as was to be expected he is not completely at home in this office, as he is not in any other. "I still have trouble introducing myself in the dining room," he says. "Sometimes people don't know when I'm being ironic." Well, then, presenting Alan Heimert, All-American, Un-American Anti-Absolutist