Word: tells
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...been in college a couple of years now, and I haven't yet developed an interest in marijuana. So I guess I've got a problem. I'd appreciate whatever you could do but, for Christ's sake, don't tell my old man! He's along in years, and that could spell...
...Rheault, who said on arrival at California's Travis Air Force Base that he hoped history would ignore the affair. "It would better be forgotten as long as people remember that we were exonerated." There is little likelihood of that, but unless some of the Green Berets themselves tell their full stories, the details of the episode may remain a mystery...
Then that night Mike Wallace waltzes up grimly to tell us about CBW warfare. I saw this one. I sat there (waiting for Shanghai Express of course) watching all these flashes of botulin and anthrax, hearing them described as more humane than bullets and bombs. A liver-spotted general emeritus told me how germs give me (us-US) a bonus area of death, and how we had germs because the Russians had germs, and how we would like to fall back on gems if that would prevent nuclear holocaust. At the end of all of this Mike lowered his script...
...University police. After they had watched us put up several posters on Church St., we were surrounded in front of Claverly Hall by eight Harvard police and eight Cambridge cops in four squad cars called in by Harvard to arrest us. At first they refused to tell us what we were charged with, but conferred for a half hour trying to figure out the most serious offenses they could get away with booking us on. In the end we were charged with idle and disorderly conduct (max. penalty: a year in jail). disturbing the peace...
WHEN Robert Downey was working as the "house freak" in a Madison Avenue ad agency a few years ago, an expert was paid $28,000 to come and tell the agency how to sell a particular beer. When the big day arrived, this motivational research guy came before the board and said just three words: "Beer is cock." He then collected his stash and went home-and the agency, after pondering these words of wisdom, came up with a campaign about the beer "with the five-minute head...