Word: repeat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...toadies who came to him with one proposal or another. His duty bade him say no to these schemes, but he was such a kindly fellow (in some respects) that he could not bear to speak the word. He would call in his two-year-old granddaughter and repeat the proposal to her, in front of the visitor. Since she was a well-brought-up little girl, to all these propositions she would unhesitatingly say no. "How can I go against her?" the old gentleman would ask. After a while, the granddaughter, bored with the routine, began to answer...
...Dunns and their friends, this is as unnerving as having poison ivy or termites about the place. Pressing Peter for details, they learn that the vision was rather like a person, that its message was love, and that they must join him at the same hilly spot for a repeat miracle...
...both knees) at the victim's head. With thumbs touching and fingers spread, press straight down on his back to empty the lungs. Release the pressure smoothly, rock back, and lift the victim's elbows. This expands the lungs and makes them draw air in. Repeat the cycle twelve times a minute...
...rate, the repeat concert tonight deserves a big, big crowd, if only for the sake of hearing the Messiah...
...would be so. More important, they believed that victory, purchased at so fearful a price, had given them a second opportunity to create, at last, that free, new world of peace . . . But no. There is a fly in the ointment. Once more we seem doomed to repeat that awful cycle of murder and destruction . . . Why then should we not be fatalistic, silent, stodgy-even weary...