Word: tells
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...civilized light had filtered into the Carney home, if brute passions could be confined to the brutes, if, if, if-a lament for humanity's near misses at achieving humanity. For awful as they are, the Carneys are not all bad. They have courage, they are loyal, they tell the truth, insofar as they can see it. Their destiny is not to be evil but to be unable to mobilize and release the good qualities that they have in them. It is the playwright's essential fairness and depth of understanding of this plight that give A Whistle...
...estimated 15,000 demonstrators had gathered on the Cambridge Common at 1 p.m. for a rally before marching to Boston. George Wald. Higgins Professor of Biology, told the crowd. "I'll tell you how to get out of Vietnam-in ships. In a democracy, the government doesn't tell us; the President doesn't tell us: we tell them." As church bells tolled. Wald said. "Our national problem is that we're on our second amoral President...
...think about when I can't sleep is the war I can't see or feel. People die and I live oblivious. What do I do? Go to a shrink or go to a doctor and ask him to find out what's wrong with me as I tell him where to look and make up things that I don't feel. Do I tell him with honesty that I just don't want to go into the Army to fight this war? Then am I chicken and will they scoff at me? Will I be affected...
GOODELL believes in himself as an educator as well as a legislator. He often says of his speeches in New York State, "I tell people what they don't want to hear." He tells upstate farmers that some of the things students are demonstrating about are important issues; and he tells the students that the farmers' complaints about taxes are equally legitimate...
...Volunteer patients" came on my ward, and after on exposure, I fought to have them prevented from returning. This scheme is very insulting, painful, and inconsiderate of patients, (Something I discovered after discussing a visit by "volunteers.") First, they can always tell, immediately, an imposter, and feel they are part of a freak show: when they see students imitating the bizarre behavior which they can't control, they are shamed and rightly hurt, that they are being made...