Word: tells
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...large and small screening rooms in Cannes' Grand Palais from eight in the morning to well past midnight, taking pause only to rush to the press room or back to our hotels to file reports on the films we've seen. It's a hectic time but, truth to tell, every bit as exhilarating as it is exhausting...
...Poland and Germany were in agreement with, and fully supported, Hitler's "final solution." Surely there were rallies, organized protests, etc., yet we are left with the impression that the average Pole or German simply shrugged his or her shoulders and went about his or her business. Please tell me I am wrong. Irv Jacobs, LA MESA, CALIF...
...College has taught me a different sort of recollection. I am dependent on quite a different type of memory, a detached one. September 23, not a Friday, perhaps a Wednesday this year, is a date. It tells me eight years have passed since I lost my mother. On September 23, there may be flowers on my family’s dining room table. My father may tell me one of his patients remembered my mother, or that they sent along a card. It is a memory not of the emotions that surround death but of the time that has passed...
...dark. DEFENSE: 1. If a potential attacker approaches you but has not yet touched you, make yourself into an unappealing target. Assuming a defensive stance may make the offender more likely to back off. Stand with your legs shoulder width apart, hands in front of you, and palms spread. Tell the attacker that you don’t want any trouble. If he or she still approaches, use your palm to strike his or her nose (or jaw) with an upward force. 2. If your attacker still poses a threat, there are many other areas of the body...
...memoir. "Goodbye. I don't think we'll miss you," Cherie told the waiting press corps as the Blairs said farewell to Downing Street last June. Now, by publishing her autobiography, she's invited fresh and closer scrutiny. She took the risk, says the source, because she wanted "to tell her version of the reality behind the many myths and try to correct the distorted representation of her that evolved from years of negative press ... Her book is a love story and a journey which the reader travels on with...