Word: repeat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Although history is said to repeat herself anyway, President Pusey and the overseers seemed determined that she not forget Harvard this year. An Ancient Historian by trade, the president has pointed to the College's past, shown that it has grown by fifty men annually during the last century, and has concluded that it could do so again in the future. Untutored in mathematics, we felt that the times have changed and that the fact of past expansion has little to do with possibilities for future growth...
...into the Deputies' lounge, stepped up to the bar and ordered a glass of wine. At the other end of the bar, a knot of Socialists glowered at this invasion of a private precinct. One of them put down his glass and growled: "All right, Monsieur Poujade. Now, repeat that we are all rotten and bought...
...them all in a sack, and on a pitch black night took them out under an arch. First I would cough, and then immediately whale the daylights out of the cats. They whined and shrieked like an infernal pipe organ. I would pause for a while and repeat the operation-first a cough, and then a thrashing. I finally noticed that even without beating them, the beasts moaned and yelped like the very devil whenever I coughed. I then let them loose. Thereafter, whenever I had to eat off the floor, I would cast a look around. If an animal...
...Congress and the President that had cooled Washington's political heat last January were notably missing after this year's State of the Union message. Criticism from Democratic leaders was more outspoken, and Republicans lyrically referred to the speech as "superb, superlative, and sublime." Even the President failed to repeat last year's plea for "harmony and good will" as he attempted to set a liberal Republican platform that could bring victory in November with or without his name on the ballot...
Almost 100 years later, the painter Vasari rendered a judgment on Fra Angelico's works that most succeeding generations have echoed and are likely to repeat: "It is an unspeakable delight to regard them, for it appears that the spirits of the blessed in heaven cannot be otherwise than these . . . The entire coloring appears to be the work of a saint or an angel like themselves. Right well did this holy friar deserve the name by which he was always known, Fra Giovanni Angelico...