Word: repeat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When the press contingent caught up with Ike in the morning, photographers begged him to repeat his trip to Suribachi. He agreed. On the way out, the official party transferred from a Chevrolet sedan to a jeep for the last steep part of the climb. Said Charlie Wilson, soon to resign as president of General Motors: "Why are we changing to the jeep?" Replied the driver: "That hill's too steep for the Chevrolet to make it." "Are you sure?" pressed Wilson. "I'm damned sure, sir," said the driver. When Wilson was gone, the G.I. snorted...
...Ulen expresses some doubt about the team's ability to repeat this showing for 1952-53, and some grave worries about the opening meet with the Maroons. Springfield's 20-yard pool--five yards shorter than the pool here--combined with the fact that Springfield has two finalist from last year's National Swimming Competitions, make this what Ulen terms "an unusually tough opening meet...
...late great Marshal de Lattre de Tassigny had shown briefly what could be done if the Viet Minh Communists could be tricked out into open combat. Now, at the encircled air strip of Nasan, 117 miles west of Hanoi, there was a chance that Communist General Giap would repeat his earlier mistakes...
...last week in a courtroom of Prague's grim old Pankrac prison. The unhappy 14 stood up while a 14,000-word indictment was read against them. Then, one by one, they "confessed." They were broken, half-dead men, but they had been left with enough wit to repeat the intricate fables, involving dozens of well-known names inside & outside Czechoslovakia, which their merciless interrogators had impressed upon them. There were no non-Communist newsmen in Prague, much less in the courtroom; but the confessions were broadcast, in the defendants' own dead voices, over the Prague radio...
...Crimson's Buddy Lemay and Dick Clasby received repeat mention in the board's nominations...