Word: repeat
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...clock Friday morning, 2,000 competitors will assemble before the gates of the Kulm Hotel, march three by three to the stadium and there in chorus repeat the Olympic oath: "We swear we come to the Olympic games . . . in a chivalrous spirit for the honor of our countries and the glory of sport...
...squash men are having their hands full with older, more experienced teams from such clubs as the Union Boat Club, University Club, and Harvard Club of Boston, which claims some of the sharpest players around the Hub. But standings here mean little to the Crimson, as court men repeat the old story; it's experience that counts...
...divided and warring India our New Delhi bureau was having "no (repeat no) Christmas celebration." In Tokyo, TIME Inc.'s staff was forbidden by occupation directives to share food or give American gifts to Japanese. In Moscow, where rationing had ended, John Walker had assembled a Ukrainian doll for his infant daughter, a clockwork tank for his young son and, weather and the news permitting, planned to fly to Stockholm to be with his family. Overshadowing the Cairo bureau's festivities was the fighting in the Holy Land. Bureau Chief Don Burke's family had a Christmas...
Holt calls the teaching method "guided imitation": immediately after the native speaker does his stuff, there is dead track so the student can repeat aloud. Words are taught in progressively larger learning blocks ("I want," "I want a glass," "I want a glass of water"). In this way the student masters speech melody (intonation and speed) as well as vocabulary. By following the text as he plays the record, the student learns to read, too. But the real goal is speaking ability...
...made the cellos repeat and repeat the melting cello quartet passage that had troubled him 60 years before, and when their playing of it did not suit him, he turned to the cellists with a look of contained rage that was as effective as a blow-off would have been. Other times, in dissatisfaction, he slapped his baton fitfully against his trouser...