Word: tells
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...What do they want?'' I drowsily asked my maidservant. ''They didn't say. But they behaved in a very unusual manner.'' ''Tell them I'll be down presently,'' I said. ''Give them a cold drink and some cigarettes.'' I did not hurry. I wanted time to think and be ready to cope with whatever was coming. After tea, I went downstairs slowly, deliberately creating the impression of composure. When I entered the living room, both men were sprawled on the sofa. Qi stood up from force of habit, but when he saw that the other man remained seated, he went...
...rushed to the door, hoping to find out the truth. ''These things you have just given to me -- they are my daughter's clothes and quilt,'' I said. ''Yes,'' answered the guard. ''What's happened to my daughter?'' ''Nothing has happened to her.'' ''Do you mean to tell me that you know for a fact my daughter is alive and well at this moment?'' ''Why should she be otherwise?'' The guard walked away. After a few weeks of anxiety, with little food and hardly any sleep, I became sick once more, with a high fever and delirium. I was again...
...still kept hoping, but her goddaughter Hean, the daughter of an old friend. Hean took Cheng to a small house where the released prisoner had been assigned two rooms on the second floor. But what had become of Meiping? Hean did not answer. Only when Cheng insisted did Hean tell her that Meiping had committed suicide on June 16, 1967, during Cheng's first year in prison. At least that was the official story -- that she had jumped from the ninth floor of the Shanghai Athletic Association building while being interrogated. Cheng refused to believe it. She went...
...books? Why are you so foreign altogether? In every room in this house there are imported things, but there is not a single portrait of our beloved Great Leader.'' Outside the kitchen, I saw a man who had not been with the Red Guards the night before. I could tell by his air of self-assurance that he was a party official. ''I'm a liaison officer of the municipal government,'' he said. ''It's my job to inspect the revolutionary action of the Red Guards. Have you been beaten or ill treated?'' ''No, not at all,'' I said. ''These...
...vicious dreams, but with their policies. ''We must reopen the national debate, must think with our heads and not our hearts. We need a Zionism of quality, not of acreage.'' Harkabi's voice now comes out of near darkness. ''People ask me how large an Israel I want. I tell them, 'From Paris to New Delhi!' They say, 'But that's too big!' I say, 'Ah, well. Then let's talk realistically. How big is enough...