Word: tells
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...began to realize how influential our generation is, whether it be at Columbia or the Sorbonne. It's frightening to think that we could have a whole nation kowtow to our demands. We could eventually find ourselves with a 25-year-old President who couldn't tell the difference between a resolution and a revolution...
...through high school and you and the rest of my outmoded society taught me wrong. I thought it was a privilege to enter a university. Imagine! A chance to listen and read and learn and question and maybe change an idea or two. You didn't tell me that my ideas at 18 or 20 were the only possible ideas and should be forced on an administration that, after all, had only been facing the same problems for an average of 20 years. So now that I'm too old to be taught anything different...
...tell their stories to each other time and again. They talk of home, too, and how worried their wives and their parents must be. They talk of how things will be when they get back. A few hours ago they were strangers, but now they admire each other's wounds and trade confidences and insults with ease and affection. Without anyone saying it, they realize that they are members of a rather elite fraternity, and this pleases them...
...took for granted the middle-class values of his father, a proud, patient jeweler who is "the best watchmaker in the San Fernando Valley." At school, Brian was "the kind of kid who would run and tell the teacher if I saw another kid starting a fire with a magnifying glass...
...productive reporter who was fired last year by the Atlanta Journal for "unethical practice in obtaining news." His offense had been to deceive a state liquor-control officer; to get a story about nightclub raids, Coram told the officer that his superior, Revenue Commissioner Peyton Hawes, wanted him to tell all. The officer believed Coram and, without checking with Hawes, proceeded to talk...