Word: repeat
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...want to be an "orphan of the world" again. We should never repeat the mistakes of the past generation. Mutual understanding is now more important than anything else for the maintenance and promotion of healthy U.S.-Japan economic relations and for the economic prosperity of the world...
Then he seems like one of the final mature specimens of a soon to start decaying profession. With or without a new ideology it is soon going to be impossible to do Plumb's sort of scholarship. Historians may repeat his efforts in increasingly pallid imitations, or they may strike off in a new direction under the cover of a revitalized ideology, but they will hardly reproduce Plumb's efforts. Liberal individualism has lost its cutting edge as an intellectual doctrine...
...Levi's version can never be quite the same as Gatsby's "white suit with a silver shirt and a gold-colored tie." But if designers like Albini and Lauren are right, the zigzag cycle of nostalgic fashion has found its next turn. "Can't repeat the past?" cried Gatsby incredulously. "Why, of course you can. I'm going to fix everything just the way it was before." Got that, Sport...
...Toll Bridge. One day I decided to repeat my old walk to work from the Broadway Mansions, renamed Shanghai Mansions, to my former office on the Bund. An unsmiling crowd of 200 or 300 fell in behind. We trekked over the Garden Bridge, now the "No-Toll Bridge." The Soochow Creek below smelled as bad as ever and was jammed with the same sampans that have been used to unload freighters ever since Shanghai was opened to foreign shipping in 1842 after the Opium...
...three of the Crimson's five men in this tournament downed their opponents at Penn and there is no reason to suppose that they will not repeat this weekend...