Word: tells
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...defense lawyer were ever to try to influence the testimony of a witness by threats or promises, he would be prosecuted for obstruction of justice even if he coerced the witness to tell the truth. But prosecutors are not subject to the same rules...
...assertion dulled by denial that the possibilities for the truth are numerous. With good reason, most people believe some of what they're reading and seeing, but not all of it. Most Americans seem to think Clinton and Lewinsky had some sort of affair, but that he did not tell her to lie under oath; they think Clinton is morally bankrupt, but don't much mind as long as he continues to lead the nation through economic bliss...
Lewinsky--who really does feel spurned by the President--doesn't ask for much in return for her name and reputation. Perhaps she is promised the chance to write a tell-all book like her mother had before her. When the reports of an affair surface, Clinton is dumb-founded and devastated. Of course he knows who Lewinsky is. She was that bubbly intern who used to give him presents. She was the one that wealthy New York donor told him to look after. She was the one he had Vernon Jordan help find a job after she kept calling...
Joshua A. Kaufman's ("To Write," Opinion, Jan. 23) informs us that to write is "to be honest, to set truth above all"; "to be fair"; "to tell it like...
...This is something I tell people never to do,"says Gorham, batting a kitten's paw through thebars of the cage...