Word: tells
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...asks questions and puts people at ease, says a senior Vatican official. "After five minutes you forget you're talking to the Pope. It is like friends talking over coffee." Though he devotes much of his attention to weighty subjects, there are also lighter moments. "He likes to tell stories, anecdotes, jokes," says this official. "He has a good sense of humor...
...course, governments in every country occasionally lie to their people. The difference is that in Japan this practice has long been acceptable. "The government is structured in a way that it regularly does not tell the truth," says Yoshiaki Yoshimi, a professor of history at Tokyo's Chuo University. "They simply demand our trust." Yoshimi made headlines several years ago when, after painstaking research, he documented the charge that during World War II the Japanese military had forced Chinese and Korean women into prostitution. Like other evidence of wartime atrocities, this is still denied by many in Japan, which, unlike...
Concerning news it is hard to say enough and not too much. The rights of the gossip must be held sacred, and it is unnecessary to trespass upon the domain of the childish. There is still room, however, to tell many things that should secure us the patronage of students and graduates. We cannot hope to excel the Advocate in our treatment of sporting matters; to equal it in this, and to supply a long-felt deficiency in other respects, are chief objects with...
Arthur H. Lubow '73 wrote an article for The Crimson's June of 1972 commencement issue titled "Tell Me, How Do I Get Tenure at Harvard...
...selection of a successor to Pusey engagedthe attention of the University in 1970-71. WhenDerek C. Bok was selected as President, TheCrimson was ready to tell Harvard everything therewas to be known about the Law School Dean and thereasons for his selection...