Word: tells
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...John Fitzgerald Kennedy said in 1961 that we should ask not what our country can do for us but what we can do for our country. I'd like to paraphrase that, and tell you to ask what you can do for your city," Holway said...
...there. 'How's everything, P.B.?' a dozen people ask him before lunch. To each, Sykes replies, 'Fine.' He telephones a doctor. A receptionist says the next available appointment is three months distant. Sykes says he has an emergency. 'What seems to be the trouble?' asks the woman. Sykes cannot tell her the truth, for he is certain she is incapable of believing that feet can be switched like umbrellas traded in a restaurant mixup, and will think him mad and dispatch him to psychiatry...
...Jaguar. Friends say that women tremble in his presence. E.P. Dutton Editor Tom Congdon describes an incident that occurred once when he was walking with Baker on Nantucket: a stunningly beautiful young woman on a bicycle asked for directions. "Russ ambled over to her and started to tell her, in his deep, soft voice, and I could see his effect on her. Her cheeks turned pink, and she had trouble speaking, and when she left, her bike sort of wobbled away...
Baker's first column lampooned a J.F.K. press conference ("Q. Mr. President, can you tell us what you have done with Chester Bowles? ... A. The State Department is looking into this matter and we are expecting a report"). The attempt worked, partly because it shocked people; it was still a bit daring in 1962 to laugh at the Kennedy style. He wrote the column in its first years from Washington and had a splendid time unstuffing shirts, though he deadpans now: "It's depressing to read a politician's memoirs and realize how little you got right...
...doctors have had little help out of this bind, since few precise tests have been generally available to tell them if and how well the body will respond to a prescribed drug. But aid may now finally...