Word: repeat
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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However, Cahalan failed to repeat as the Eastern Seaboard 50-free champion...
...tracing his individual frustration back to the power source that fundamentally opposes meaningful change, as to argue convincingly that the chance-giving approach must fail. The implications for those younger than Cowan bring to mind George Santayana's maxim that people who never learn their history are condemned to repeat it. Skeptical as we may be about America's reformist institutions, ignorance could conceivably allow us to join the Peace Corps in the belief that we could do some good. Cowan's experience is consistent and compelling enough to prevent us from repeating his mistake, to convince us that there...
...focus of the rally, according to Richard W. Osborne '72, is a kickoff for a referendum on the war that SMC hopes to get on the ballot in November. SMC also focuses on peace campaigns "in an attempt to discredit Nixon's silent majority." and is planning a repeat of Vietnam Summer in Boston...
Cooler heads on two investigating commissions later found Judge Crockett's rulings within the law. Many citizens admitted that he had kept an explosive situation from erupting into a repeat of the 1967 riot. But Crockett was proudest of the fact that his actions had given many embittered blacks a renewed trust in courts instead of more reason to revile them. Here was a judge who pointedly asked: "Can anyone imagine the police invading an all-white church, rounding up everybody in sight and busing them to a wholesale lockup in a police garage...
...expect promotions to the policy-shaping field. Other minority groups, for example. Italians and Jews, encountered similar barriers in making their way to the top and in some companies are still kept out. But the barriers are breaking down for them, and it is entirely possible that history will repeat itself in the case of America's blacks...