Word: repeat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From that point on, The Blue Veil, though acted and directed with praiseworthy restraint, grows increasingly maudlin. Succeeding episodes merely repeat Governess Wyman's plight in triplicate, each time heaping her with keener deprivations and sanctifying her with brighter nobility. Marriage beckons Jane a second time, and with it a good man's love, but she remains always a substitute mother, never a bride...
...jayvee football team's offense was about as evident as a mouse in a cattle stampede yesterday as the Dartmouth junior varsity coasted to a 33 to 0 victory over the Crimson at Soldiers Field. The game was almost a repeat of last year's 38 to 0 Indian victory...
...course, the whole show. He takes the standard classics-"Muskrat Ramble," "That's Aplenty," "Tin Roof Blues," etc.-and gets something different out of each of them. I have heard him play "High Society" at least five times, once for almost twenty minutes, and never did he repeat or borrow from any source other than his limitless creative inspiration. And he takes such surprising tunes as "Casey Jones" and turns them into jazz classics...
Like every Orthodox Jewish boy, he first learned the great monotheistic confession of faith which every devout Jew hopes to have the strength to repeat on his deathbed: "Hear, O Israel: the Lord our God, the Lord is One." He learned the complex system of ritual blessings with which the Orthodox Jew sanctifies every important action of the day: the thanks on awakening (for the day, for the power of sight, for the creation of the earth, for the power to walk, for the renewal of his strength, for not being an idolator or a slave or a woman...
Massachusetts draft headquarters could only repeat its previous advice to college freshmen: keep up with the policy of local boards. The office said that the Army expected to take more draftees and more reserve units this fall and winter; most will be used to replace men who must be sent to Korea under the rotation system...