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Word: tells (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...agree it's not likely. OK--we're not an awesome team this year, either; but they guys are pulling together. And like Coach Joe says, we have spirit. And didn't you always tell me spiritual commitment is the key to a good life...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A New Year: Prayer Before Entering the Lions' Den | 9/22/1979 | See Source »

Harvard mailed some of its tenants their rent increase notices after the legal deadline, and officials say they had no plans to tell tenants of the situation or to correct it. "It's not our fault," Robert Silverman, Real Estate Department offical said, blaming city administrative foul-ups for the delay...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard: The Bully On the Block? | 9/22/1979 | See Source »

...Three years of this and still no light at the end of the tunnel. The bands multiply like poor people and we just can't deal with it. We sure as hell can't sign them all, and who can tell them apart anyway--they're peas in a pod. Total industry sales are down for the first time in ages...

Author: By Scott A. Rosenberg, | Title: Memos From Turner | 9/19/1979 | See Source »

...very name of the Clash signifies violence. Each of their songs contains a subtly disguised message hopelessly inappropriate for impressionable teens. These British hooligans tell listeners things like "Hate an War--the only things there are today," "Career opportunities are the ones that never knock," "If Adolf Hitler flew in today, they'd send a limousine anyway," and other statements of nihilism and frustration that can only fan the flames of discontent. Their music is loud, crude, fast, and shunned by listeners with taste...

Author: By Scott A. Rosenberg, | Title: Memos From Turner | 9/19/1979 | See Source »

...Then, following audiotaped instructions and other information that is flashed at him, he "drives" the stationary car in typical fashion over a simulated three-mile course. A measuring device reveals how much gas he used. Next, he takes the car over the course a second time, following instructions that tell him how to save fuel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Fuelish Myths | 9/17/1979 | See Source »

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