Word: tells
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Senator Kennedy's health insurance plan would provide coverage for all Americans and aim at limiting costs, an admirable scheme. But along with any plan to ration medical care and limit its cost comes a compromise in quality. Will the Senator tell us this...
...jurors, the defense counsel and the psychiatrists are trying to tell us that Dan White [May 28] did not premeditate the senseless killings of Mayor Moscone and Supervisor Milk, they've got to be the insane ones...
...antistate purposes." The Soviet press ran a two-sentence news report. Most of the satellite nations followed Moscow's lead, but Radio Free Europe, the BBC and Voice of America filled the gap, beaming extensive radio coverage of the visit. Yugoslavia's weekly NIN remarked: "It is hard to tell where pastoral work stops and politics begins," while Albania's party daily fumed: "The old desires of all the oppressors, the slaveowners, religionists and Popes to rule in peace are now being crushed" by the working masses...
...groped their way through these ethical thickets, James ("Scotty") Reston of the New York Times was worried that they might be getting too moralistic. So he volunteered a distinction between pretense and deceit. Reporters often pretend to know more than they do, he said, to get a source to tell the full story; that's O.K. Deceit is the more elaborate subterfuge the Sun-Times practiced. Having ingested this bit of Talmudic Calvinism, the judges gave the Pulitzer to someone else...
...tough, talk fast, sing scat. Here Abeba, nicknamed the "Piano Girl" for the black and shiny spinet that her ambitious mother buys her, grows up to the accompaniment of Mozart and Mendelssohn. "We looking for you to make it big," her street-corner admirers tell...