Word: repeat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Visitors to the chateau of Cirey came away so dumfounded that they could scarcely summon the strength to repeat everything they had seen and heard. One of them, arriving in broad daylight. claimed that he was led by a servant carrying a lantern through a succession of cavernous, shuttered rooms until a door opened into a brilliant drawing room lit by 20 candles. Here sat Emilie, Marquise du Chatelet, surrounded by scientific instruments and glittering "with diamonds like an operatic Venus." Above, "weaving spells" at the head of a secret staircase, sat "the Magician" who was Emilie's lover...
...paradise." The philosopher-lovers enlisted the whole village for amateur theatricals, went for picnics "followed by a second carriage full of books." Guests were regaled with readings from Voltaire's embattled works (especially La Pucelle, his scandalous extravaganza on Joan of Arc) and hastened back to Versailles to repeat everything they could remember...
...Crimson upset Army in a similar situation last year but the Army team has the considerable advantage of more competitive experience than the Crimson so far this season. To repeat last year's victory the varsity squad will have to overcome Army's greater experience...
...that a parley at the summit is inevitable-on the Kremlin's terms. Newsmen in Europe and Washington have helped the notion along by reporting surges of what was called "world opinion" in favor of a parley to "end" the cold war. When the U.S., anxious not to repeat the letdown of 1955's spirit of Geneva, insisted that points at issue be explored at the foreign minister or ambassadorial level before any summit meeting, the Kremlin set about making mileage with the appeasement-minded by charging that the U.S. "attitude on peace" was "negative...
...Central was one of the most heavily mortgaged U.S. roads and in terms of its heavy and unprofitable passenger traffic one of the least desirable. But Young talked as if his mere presence would banish trouble and nurture prosperity. For a while, it seemed as if Young would repeat the success he had with the coal-hauling C. & 0. The Central went on a $2 annual dividend basis; costs were cut and income boosted. Central's stock shot up from 23 to 49½; Young confidently predicted that it would go to 100, and urged his friends...