Word: repeat
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Stacy does not want to marry and leave home, "not till I'm older like my mother." And she does not want to repeat this day's sad experience. "I won't get any more abortions," she says. But now that it is over, she and her mother are off to Alexander's department store for a shopping spree. They try to forget the day by buying new shoes and a raincoat...
Back in Cambridge, the racquetwomen return to the great indoors, hoping that when spring comes to New England, they can repeat their southern triumphs...
...Union to the effect that Premier Kosygin would like to come over to see me. I said he would be welcome. Kosygin arrived swiftly. His main request was that we should have a cessation of hostilities on the. existing lines. "I am not prepared," I said, "to have a repeat of the 1948 'truce' which was behind our loss of the war." "We'll come in here and guarantee nothing of the sort would happen," he said. "With Israel," I replied, "you can't guarantee anything! Besides, where are the tanks I asked...
...such arguments: Is too much energy being wasted transporting ham and bacon from farm to dinner table? How pleasurable to insist that pigs must fly. Author Jerry Mander's treatise offers precisely this kind of joyous irresponsibility. The world knows that the megabucks technology of television is not, repeat not, going to be eliminated. On his final page, Mander himself acknowledges that he has no idea how to get rid of the box. But until that terminus he offers the intriguing notion of a society without aerials, reruns or Howard Cosell...
...thing U.S. foreign policy makers don't want is a repeat of the Vietnam anti-war movement," Schecter said. Addressing a group of about 35 at Adams House, the "news dissecter" added, "People in this room have more power than they know to influence policy...