Word: repeat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Repetition is good," Tom Dorgan explained to the Committee on Education. "You don't get it the first time, then you hear it again." His favorite refrain was: "I'll repeat that." "Until you believe it," he might have added...
Dorgan and McCarthy were having a repeat performance in the State House. A month ago they aired a joint bill to outlaw the Communist Party in Massachusetts, in hearings before the Committee on Constitutional Law. Last week they were back again, before a new committee and audience, but with much the same speeches and gestures. Their new bill required colleges to expel all communists and communist sympathizers from their faculties. Colleges not complying would lose their charters...
North Carolina was leading 5-0 on the first day when rain prevented completion of the match. The next day everything was begun all over with switching in the order of men to prevent repeat matches of those played the day before. Harvard got most of its wins in the bottom brackets...
...which any individual of ordinary tact does when confronted with a shocking violation of the most elementary precepts of good taste: we ignored it. However, the reiteration of this ruttish broadside in today's CRIMSON suggests that the avowed feceophage has seized upon the advantage of wholesale rates to repeat his disgusting puff. Your threefold publication of this pornographic notice allows us no longer to remain silent...
...Phelps. "The Lesson," which is the better of the two, I think, defies analysis. It has almost no action, its characters have no individuality (they are called "The Speaker," "A One" and such), it has a chorus and a musical background, the audience is expected to join in and repeat certain lines. The ostensible topic of discussion is a crashed airman who is on the verge of death, but Brecht merely uses him as a reflector for his ideas about death, man's place on earth, and his relationship to modern technology. The tone of the piece is didactic...