Word: repeat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...overemphasize to the listener or reader that the story you are about to relate is an extraordinarily good one. Your praise may be too lavish . . . You should not applaud your own story. If the story you have told has made no impression on the listener, do not repeat it in a vain attempt to get some response . . . Unless you are very good at it, never use a dialect in telling an anecdote...
...public-address system blares out: "Good morning! Did you sleep well?" By 6 a.m. the cadets are outside for reveille formation. They line up by companies, each of which bears an animal's name, e.g., White Horse, Antelope, Panther. They count off, sing the national anthem, repeat the armed forces oath, ending with a fiery pledge to unify the country ("Let us plant the Republic of Korea colors on Paektu-san* and wash our swords in the Yalu River...
Despite the unfamiliar and unusually flat Brown course, the Crimson strategist is confident his runners can repeat these showings, and then some, against two teams--M.I.T. and Brown--which have lost two meets apiece, and a third--Tufts--which opens its season this afternoon...
...Recently, European bankers have shown an embarrassing lack of confidence in the value of the pound-partly brought on by Britain's faltering financial situation, partly because of rumors that Britain might devalue it. Butler was firm. "We do not contemplate any early move on any-and I repeat any-aspects of the exchange front," he told the Fund's governors. In other words, Britain was not going to devalue the pound (current exchange rate: $2.80). Having not dared risk convertibility when the pound was strong, London had no intention at all of attempting it when the pound...
...possibly possible that the world will let the South African Nationalist government behave the way it does? They seem to ask for a repeat of the happenings in other colonies and ex-colonies like Israel and Morocco. What is the good of a United Nations if these things are allowed to happen...