Word: repeat
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...month passed. Silence. Then came a computer printout from HEW, reminding Sears to return the form and once more threatening a cutoff of funds. Beckwith again wrote to explain why he had not filled out the form. On Dec. 2, a HEW secretary phoned him to repeat the warning. Her call was followed by one from a HEW attorney, who expressed regret at "the sequence of events" but told Beckwith that HEW would nevertheless cite his school for failure to complete the form...
...called to ask about a special six-hour self-defense course offered by Mary Conroy, 33, assistant professor of physical education at California State University in East Los Angeles. She only had space for 67 students, each of whom paid $22.50 in tuition, but she promises a repeat course in January. Conroy, 5 ft. 4 in. tall and a springy 104 Ibs., sounds like a boot camp instructor drilling raw recruits. "Ready, gouge! Ready, gouge!" she shouted one afternoon last week. "Now follow with the knee in the groin. G-o-o-o-o-d." Conroy insists that her students...
...next year, and there is no more prolific or respected sculptor in America. Her boxes and walls, filled with accumulated wooden fragments painted a uniform black, white or gold, are among the fixtures of the modern imagination. But at an age when many artists are content to repeat the clichés they invented, Nevelson keeps on extending herself. The proof of this-if it were needed-is the centerpiece of her current show at Manhattan's Pace Gallery, Mrs. N's Palace...
...minutes...These phonetic components...were so orderly that listeners could predict the appearance of the next type of signal." Carl Sagan noticed that the same phenomenon occurs in the humpback whale who is known to sing "songs" that are up to 30 minutes long, and then to repeat them a little later "phoneme for phoneme." He asks, "Is it possible that the intelligence of Cetaceans is channeled into the equivalent of epic poetry, history and elaborate codes of social interaction...
...Crimson opened the meet with a one-two sweep in the 200-yd. medley relay. The third-place Tufts relay team was 15 seconds behind the winning Harvard combination and the crowd knew this was not going to be a repeat of last year's meet, which came down to the final relay...