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telltale 1. any of various indicators or recording devices used to monitor a process, machine, etc. 2. Nautical a. another word for dogvane b. one of a pair of light vanes mounted on the main shrouds of a sailing boat to indicate the apparent direction of the wind telltale [′tel‚tāl] (engineering) A marker on the outside of a tank that indicates on an exterior scale the amount of fluid inside the tank. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| will be valid so long as we realize that stories have frequently been taken down from the lips of unlettered taletellers and have entered the great literary collections. It is significant that the novel takes place in 1966 (although its taletellers keep leapfrogging us into the past, offering us "readings" of what lies behind the narrative present), for it was in 1966 that Stokely Carmichael first issued the call for "Black Power"; 1966, too, is the year Black Studies first began, with a class in black nationalism at San Francisco State. |
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