Word: repeat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Syrian Foreign Minister Salah el Bitar, sounding more than ever like a Soviet ventriloquist's dummy, demanded a full-scale debate on "the threat to Syria's security." Said he: "The Turkish troops have apparently been given a slogan, 'To Aleppo!', which they now publicly repeat." Soviet Delegate Andrei Gromyko delightedly expanded the charge: "Apparently," said he, "the intention of the U.S.A. is to employ in Syria the method it resorted to in suppressing the independence of Guatemala." U.S. Delegate Henry Cabot Lodge promptly welcomed "an opportunity for a full airing of the Soviet allegations...
Such complaints, echoed by composers who get commissions for new works but not repeat performances, partly inspired the Ford Foundation last week to appropriate $315,000 for the commissioning, playing and repeat performances of new symphonic works, and the performances of ten contemporary U.S. operas (by the New York City Opera). Critic Frankenstein found the provision for symphonic performances insufficient. Briskly turning himself into a one-man foundation, he called on conductors to repeat works they had introduced during the last five years, offered a $100 prize for the conductor who repeated the most...
Dartmouth's J.V. football squad will seek to repeat its crushing 58-0 triumph of last year over the Crimson J.V. squad today. With six men remaining on the injured list, coach Norm Shepard will again be hampered in his efforts to put together a winning combination...
...India: "An experience of a lifetime") made sickness and occasional discomfort seem unimportant. Again and again listeners were astonished that such expertly played music could come from a "provincial" U.S. city. At the Karachi concert, Pakistan President Iskander Mirza was so moved that he asked the orchestra to repeat the Pakistani national anthem. Said a State Department official: "They have done more to impress people with the U.S. than anything that has come out of the U.S. since...
...year-old Martin Bach is catechized by his grandmother. "Your father fell in action, didn't he?" "Yes." "What does it mean-fell in action?" "Killed in the war. Shot." "Where?" "Near Kalinovka." . . . "What is the name of the man responsible for your father's death?" "Gaseler." "Repeat the name." "Gaseler." "Once more." "Gaseler." "Do you know what it means to deprive a child of his father...