"They hate hockey, " Mr. Cooke quipped, according to an oft-told story repeated in the team's media guide.
People play games like Bioshock, for instance, to experience a well-told story unfold.
By telling the tale of this epic collision through the eyes of several key participants, Shaara gave this oft-told story both drama and gripping immediacy.
Two former commanders in the north were locked in a heated rivalry over a seat in the parliament during the 2010 election, as a commonly told story in Afghanistan goes.
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In an oft-told story, each morning his mother, Madaline, a nurse, would jump in the car and conveniently drive by a disabled neighbor as he walked to the bus just to give him a ride.
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According to a much-told story, after the show the then-unknown Elvis told the group that, if he ever landed a major-label contract -- he was on Memphis' Sun Records at the time -- he'd have the Jordanaires back him up.
Speaking as someone who kickstarted the project, and who will give a game with a good and well-told story a lot of leeway on its mechanics and polish, I am more interested in the parts of the game based around managing your base and its inhabitants.
So Benny told us the story of Tom and the bat and then he told us the story of Tom's final hour.
The friends told the story of how Ms. Behar phoned Ms. Essman after a party and told her she had to let her husband talk more.
All over the country, I've often told the story of a boy and his father.
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He later told this story: The ad drew two men calling themselves Peruvian coffee merchants.
Instead I told the story of Christmas as I had never had occasion to before.
Mr. Loosen told the story of a woman he met at a tasting in Ohio.
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After he told his story, authorities began to connect it with that of other missing persons.
Haglund angrily insisted that she was healthy, but her test results told another story.
Each told a story of how the last minimum wage increase touched their businesses.
It told the story of an epic judicial blender in 1920 that is all but forgotten today.
In a presentation made at the Conference, Professor Jeremy Boissevain told a story that illustrates this point.
Hustvedt told a story to CNN about giving a talk at a literary festival in Key West, Florida.
In the first year, I told my story everywhere from COSMO Radio to The Wall Street Journal.
Picoult's novel told the story of a bullied, alienated high school student who commits an act of violence.
And when it came out, people were like, 'Oh my god you helped me, you told my story.
Unwin told the story to Rayner, his 10-year-old son, who gave it high approval in a written note.
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First, however, they told their story to a Harare newspaper, the Daily News.
In an unusual move, Deputy Fanning told his story in an e-mail he sent to CNN affiliate WKRN.
"Five masked men dragged me from my bed, " said a woman named Merima, crying as she told her story.
She wept as Mr. Welch told the story of one man who died shielding others from a grenade blast.
The evening news and the morning papers told the story of that day.
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The stark facts that told the story of their poor performance were there.
Hastings' now famous article, "The Runaway General, " told the story of an argument.
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