Word: tells
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...started looking for new challenges. She put her bed and breakfast up for sale and enrolled in a landscape-architecture course at Ohio State. After she gets her degree, she and Rick plan to move the family to Nantucket, Mass., where preservationists tend to win their battles. "I tell people that Wilmington's getting just a little too big for me," says Leslie, her perfect smile firmly in place...
There is no doubt about it--Garrison Keillor knows how to tell a story. Whether he is amusing listeners nationwide over National Public Radio or entrancing readers in his written stories, Keillor and his unique sense of humor remain a staple part of American life in many homes. His latest novel, Wobegon Boy, follows in Keillor's beloved tradition of nostalgic Midwestern humor that tries to pine for the days of long ago, without becoming too preachy. The novel is a virtual gallery of detailed portraits on how modern life can be disconcerting, and even shocking, to the good...
...masters and Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis '68 (lewis@fas.harvard.edu) and inform them that their precious two-door policy is not at stake here. Remind them that Harvard students like you are more interested in visiting friends and forming study groups than in stealing other students' belongings. And tell them you've been offended by their continued lack of respect for the student voice and their weak delay tactics...
...usually some form of 'How dare you? How dare you tell me how to teach my course?'" he says. "It's traumatic to have your view questioned, and most departments have no oversight whatever. This means a lot more luncheons...
...clothing-store manager said that mall management recently had a meeting to tell store managers about new security measures...