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Word: tells (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...history is a guide, there really is no one who can tell Carter how he should lead. It must come from within him. That is the worry. He has little sense of history, nor has he proved himself to be an imaginative man. These may be fatal flaws...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: To Push a Nation Beyond Itself | 7/16/1979 | See Source »

...hour talk with Gromyko. This session began on an amiable note, with the Foreign Minister observing that his pile of briefing notes was thinner than Byrd's thick folder. "That's just my notebook," replied the majority leader. "I'm going to write down what you tell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Civics Lesson | 7/16/1979 | See Source »

Here too the American capacity for joking about Skylab flourished. Columnist Russell Baker proposed a series of letters for NASA to send, depending on where Skylab fell. Example: "Dear Greece: It's a crying shame about the Parthenon, but as American daddies used to tell their sons back in the days when the Model T finally broke down, nothing man makes will last forever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Skylab's Fiery Fall | 7/16/1979 | See Source »

...four-play spring season in 1980, as well as an additional $1.15 million for the following fall. Over half the budget will come from ticket sales. The rest? When a student asked Brustein where he might raise the money, he answered dryly: "I was hoping you'd tell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Culture Drought on the Charles | 7/16/1979 | See Source »

...well-worn gimmicks that made his last movie a success. Meet Cuff and Link, Rocky's turtles, for the second time. See Rocky run through downtown Philadelphia again--this time followed by a ragtag of urchins that turns him into an Italian Pied Piper. Listen to Talia Shire tell Stallone she loves him three times in the same scene...

Author: By Susan K. Brown and Scott A. Rosenberg, S | Title: No Future | 7/13/1979 | See Source »

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