Word: tells
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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ANYWAY, I've now been at Harvard nearly four years, and I can't tell you how often this desire has gone through my head. There I'll be, sitting at lunch, minding my own business, discussing the Hedda Nussbaum mess or plans for next year or pass the salt, and suddenly some person will come join...
...Male feminists, if such a thing exists, who tell me that something someone is doing to me is a form of sexist oppression and an example of societal conditioning that doesn't allow me to recognize my own pained existence (these are the same men who think that the greatest accomplishment of feminism is the dutch treat...
Should a terrorist board the plane, speak in soothing tones to passengers and tell them that they will soon be "set free." Then go to the terrorists and convince them that it makes a greater political statement to execute passengers before the crew. Add that it would be most effective if the victims are card-carrying union members...
...this reason, you must be particularly sweet when you reveal that striking workers did not load their baggage onto the plane. Tell them that they will get it back "soon," trying hard not to break out laughing...
Think it's unfair? Tell that to "Shoeless" Joe Jackson, one of baseball's greatest hitters, who was banned from the game after the 1918 Black Sox Scandal. Or Orlando Cepeda, a sure Hall of Famer--until he went to jail for drug possession...