Word: repeat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...make the skin more heat-absorbent. The doctor tested their "pain threshold" with the heat from a 1,000-watt lamp. After taking their normal readings, Dr. Michalek reached for a pain-killing drug to inject. He meant to give them Demerol (safe dose: 100 milligrams). Then he would repeat the test on a third volunteer and himself, using methadon (safe dose: 10 milligrams). More pain readings were to follow, to show the effect of the drugs...
Kroening himself expected no repeat performance. But Mainliner did it all over again, took the lead at the head of the stretch, held off every challenger to finish a length ahead of Scotch Rhythm for the Hambletonian's biggest upset since The Ambassador paid $68.20 in 1942. To Owner Kroening went a $51,347-26 winner's share of the $95,263 purse, richest Hambletonian in history...
...classes met at the Free University in 1948, in a handful of shoddy houses and what was left of the research buildings of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute. Two years earlier, in the Eastern sector, the Soviets had reopened the old University of Berlin. But they did little more than repeat the Nazi patterns of corruption. A disgusted group of students and professors went to Generals Clay and Howley to plead for a decent school. From the A.M.G. and the West Berlin government of Mayor Ernst Reuter they got money and equipment for a shoestring start...
...Record. Lanza, who learned to sing mainly from listening to phonograph records, is the only classical artist in RCA Victor annals to sell in a year more than 1,000,000 copies of a single record (Be My Love). It is a feat the company happily expects him to repeat with The Loveliest Night of the Year. Though he has sung in only one opera (two performances of Madame Butterfly in New Orleans), his phenomenal drawing power in appearances was matched around the U.S. in the past season only by Britain's Sadler's Wells Ballet. His third...
Unshaken, Britten gave a repeat performance in The Hague the second night, got a repeat performance from the critics. Back in London at week's end, Conductor Britten admitted that the garden frolic had flopped. As for the critics: "I don't read criticism ever. I wouldn't listen to what the critics say. Why should I read what they write...