Word: repeat
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...singular opportunity to feel for himself the exquisite pain of the pointless state occasion, an agony of boredom heretofore reserved for the powerful and the well born. There was perhaps something salutary about the 4½ -hour experience but it is doubtful that any sane soul would care to repeat...
...toughest task is faced by Turishcheva. Though the steadiest performer on her team-and the winner of the World Cup in London last fall-the Merited Master of Sport from Rostov-on-Don will be hard-pressed to repeat her '72 victory. She is still not fully recovered from a vertebral injury suffered last summer. A masseur will treat her daily in Canada. She recently observed: "In gymnastics, if you don't feel right, you might as well forget performing." Last month her training pace at the Palace of Sports in Minsk was up to five hours...
More effective at the shorter distance, Matthes is expected to enter only the 100-meter backstroke and the 100-meter butterfly, not the 200-meter backstroke. Thus a repeat of the events of August 1974 at Concord, Calif., will not be possible. In a dual meet there between the U.S. and East Germany, Naber stunned Matthes with his first backstroke defeats in seven years, whipping him in both sprints as well as the first leg of the medley relay. Following the meet, Naber wept after he received the East German's sweatsuit that he had exchanged...
Throughout Saturday, the last details of the commando mission were completed; early the next day the raiders struck. Reflected Peres later: "I'm proud of what we did and happy that we have an army, units and officers like these. But I hope we never have to repeat it." Less restrained was the Israeli radio announcer who first broadcast a hint of what was under way. "Hallelujah!" he exclaimed, to which the rest of the civilized world could now only say "Amen," as one of the most brazen terrorist acts in recent years has come to a surprising...
...Milt Hinton, Cootie Williams, Maynard Ferguson, Buddy Rich, Stan Getz, Earl Hines, Herbie Hancock, Dizzy Gillespie. They are playing blues, bop, jazz rock, honky tonk and ethereal moondust. The newest jazz center is in SoHo lofts, where young audiences gather to hear warm, contrapuntal, richly melodic explorations. "We never repeat," says Sam Rivers, founder of Studio Rivbea. "For three hours straight, ideas keep flourishing...