Word: repeat
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...divulge his thoughts and opinions. "As long as the question is open," says Lando, "any time a reporter sits down to discuss something with his editor, he'll keep in the back of his mind the thought that in a year or so he may have to repeat the conversation in court...
...sophomores, they won the Ivy League championship. As juniors, when they were heavily favored to repeat on top, they were buried by both Brown and Yale. This season, the same burial occurred again, and the Crimson finished with its worst record in Restic's seven-year tenure...
...past few weeks have been holding their breath. Their $6 billion investment in retooling for new models that have been sharply reduced in size and weight (TIME, Aug. 1) represented a gamble: Would the public like the smaller "big" cars? Last week the carmakers could relax a bit and repeat previous predictions of near record sales during the 1978 model-year with more conviction. New-car sales for the first 20 days of October?during which time most of the new models were in the showrooms?jumped 16% above a year earlier. That figure does not give a definitive reading...
...take the next step and insist that people damn well ought to hear about it for their own good. Nor does he justify his work by parading Santayana's maxim about the uses of history; instead, he deflates it: "Those who remember the past are condemned to repeat it too." He preaches no sermons, draws no morals, enters no ideological disputes. He simply suggests that some stories must be told-not because they will delight and instruct but because they happened...
Moynihan, who has written on the international terrorist network in L'Express and New York Magazine, said terrorism must be understood as a political phenomenon. "The point to repeat," Moynihan added, "is that terrorism is totalitarianism in action...