Word: tells
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Excelling has in most cases been a way of life from the cradle. Lyndon Johnson liked to tell the story about his grandfather riding around the Texas hill country on the day of L.B.J.'s birth, proclaiming that a U.S. Senator had been born...
...also appeared spent, like a marathon runner who has-exhausted himself in a great race. As ever, it was difficult to tell whether it was the occasion or his previous image of it that Nixon actually enjoyed...
...attempt to strike a light tone backfired, or else Kosygin's humor was too subtle for me. At the end of the summit, we boarded a Soviet plane. To the considerable chagrin of our Soviet hosts, its engines refused to start. Kosygin stormed on the plane and said: "Tell us what you want to do with our Minister of Aviation. If you want him shot on the tarmac we will do so." He looked as if he might be serious. I attempted to ease his embarrassment by speaking of the wickedness of objects. When one dropped a coin...
...help fresmen," she added. By January it was clear that counseling--informal or otherwise--was in very short supply. To help choose freshmen for their absent "friends," Kyriazis decided to consult the Freshmen Register. "We used the facebook to see what people were like," Kyriazis explained. "Sometimes you can tell from a picture," Kyriazis ventured, though he had difficulty explaining what...
...Martin) is a beautiful young heiress who comes to Aspen House on the death of her father in 1929. Three middle-class youths from the town, a factory center in the Midlands, fall in love with her. Two of them find the attraction fatal, but the third lives to tell the story and use it as the subject matter for his first novel. The pace is glacial, but the series is slowly - ever so slowly - engrossing. The acting is superb, and Christopher Blake is little short of wonderful as the shy but alway believable writer...