Word: tells
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...airline ticket officials at Logan International Airport had to tell some 200 passengers last night that they would have to wait until morning to get back to New York, because the evening's flights were booked solid...
...case of male-to-male harassment is highly suspect. If Buckley's friend is to receive some medal as the victim of sexual harassment in this incident, some-body had better make hundreds of them, because many women at this university have much better stories than that to tell (funny how our stories never get much sympathy...
...entertained intrusive interviewers and basked modestly in the limelight. But several years ago, his equanimity slipped when he heard that someone, somewhere, was planning to write his biography. "To take my life," he thought, "my lode of ore and heap of memories, from me!" If anyone was going to tell Updike's story, the author decided, it ought to be Updike...
...wonders consistently about his own failings: "The critics who found me callow might be right: I had been lucky and, as the lucky will do, had become hard-hearted." But this book betrays no coldness, only the wry detachment of someone trying to tell the truth about himself while being simultaneously "aware of a possible cliff-high vantage from which my self-solicitous life was negligible...
...tough to predict how well a player will do when he's still in high school," Weisbrod said. "It's hard to tell, so teams are more liable to draft the bigger guys higher...