Word: tells
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Soul is black and beautiful and like any black cat will tell you, baby-it's ours! Blue-eyed soul? The answer to your question-"Does this mean that white musicians by definition don't have soul?"-is simply and unequivocally yes. Obviously they can mouth the words and hit the notes, but, well, it's like Chaucer described the Prioress in The Canterbury Tales...
Outpouring of Hate. Often he felt duty bound to tell his audiences painful things because "there are no magic solutions, we are not magicians or Santa Clauses." In rural Ontario, he told prosperous farmers that their taxes would have to pay for programs in the poorer provinces. In British Columbia, where the shipyards have been hurt by foreign competition, Trudeau talked, instead, about Canada's low-income minorities. "What about the shipyards?" a heckler shouted. "What about the Indians and Eskimos?" Trudeau shot back, "Have you thought about them...
...prosecutor, William Malmgren, is Miller's original defender; though he has disqualified himself, his office still wants another trial. Whether or not Miller, who is now a Chicago busboy, ever returns to court, the Illinois Bar committee seems to be saying that, while a witness is required to tell "the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth," no such restrictions apply to prosecutors bent on winning a conviction...
WHETHER they are making automobiles, alligator bags or applesauce, modern businessmen rely heavily on economic forecasts to tell them what the state of the nation is going to be in coming months or years and how much of a market their product can expect. With more and more statistics available and better tools to do the work, economists who make such estimates should be getting better at their science. Surprisingly, however, many U.S. planners in industry as well as Government are guilty of underestimating the basic strength of the economy and the demands that it makes on the future...
Perhaps the pervasive influence of Freudianism has been felt most perversely in the genre of the thriller. Time was when characters were simply good or bad, threatening or threatened. But nowadays it is difficult to tell a real villain from a societal victim; too often the bewildered reader is caught between a hard shudder of fear and a soft sigh of compassion...