Word: tells
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that "there are 30 million gallons rolling around in automobile tanks that would normally be in the pumps." Local officials, including police chiefs, must make sure that at least one station in each locality remains open between 7 a.m. and 10 p.m. A hot line has been installed to tell callers which stations are pumping. Dealers can request gas from the state's set-aside reserve for weekend operation, but police must first verify that they are maintaining the weekend service they have promised...
...Fraternal Association of Steel Haulers (FASH): "We have to live with innumerable rules and regulations that take up all your time. You have to get 197 different permits if you drive in 48 states. You have to buy a permit to buy fuel in a state and then tell them how many miles you drive and send them back money for driving through. When the truckers are making money, they can put up with all that. But when they're not making money, they get very hostile...
...they could cause a backlash that would hurt them in the end. Public sympathy is quickly eroded by violence. Admits Vernon: "It makes us look Mice bandits." At week's end scattered acts of violence were continuing, and no one -not even the stubbornly independent owner-operators-could tell just how long their strike would...
...larger room shows traces of ash. No one knows who the builders were, what they were burning or where they ultimately went. (One theory: they may have been Aryans, who spoke an Indo-European language and who later decamped to India.) Says Sarianidi: "The temple may yet tell us something about those people, who otherwise have left nothing behind but shards of painted pottery...
...Master Tommaso, if you don't like this sketch tell Urbino [Michelangelo's servant] in time for me to make another by tomorrow evening, as I promised; and if you do like it and want me to finish it, send it back to me." Michelangelo also had his visions of idealized womanly beauty. The Morgan has a sketch of one such vision, perhaps (as some romantics would have it) a portrait of the only wom an he ever loved. She was Vittoria Colonna, the Marchesa di Pescara, a woman 17 years younger than he, and their "love" seems...