Word: repeat
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Democratic party is hoping that history will repeat itself. In 1960, the Boston-Austin connection defeated the Republicans. They are also hoping that Bentsen can defeat Bush again. In 1970, Bentsen defeated Bush for a Senate seat...
...future largely on the work of our schools," he told a meeting of the Communist Party Central Committee five months ago. The Soviet people, he said in another speech, must learn history as it really happened (rather than as the party had long told it), "so as not to repeat the mistakes of the past...
They say that Gov. Michael S. Dukakis, the Democratic presidential candidate, chose Texas Sen. Lloyd M. Bentsen as his running mate because he wants to repeat history. Look what the late John F. Kennedy '40 did in 1960 with Lyndon B. Johnson...
That pattern seems likely to repeat itself, so long as Jackson continues to follow the uncertain course he's on now. At first it seemed that he would accept his loss and merely try to contribute to the debate within the party. Then he switched, suddenly seeming to set his sights on being nominated to the vice presidency. Saying that he had no ranch, no ski-lodge, no oil company to run, Jackson let it be known that the vice presidency was hardly something he would categorically dismiss...
...press proved to be a paper tiger. Despite his glowing clip file, Bruce Babbitt foundered in Iowa, while Bob Dole, the media's favorite Republican, was upended in New Hampshire -- and later had the temerity to blame the press in part for his defeat. Reporters were doomed to repeat as gospel political orthodoxies that were soon outpaced by events. Try these on for nostalgia's sake. A sitting Governor like Dukakis can never be nominated because he would be unable to devote enough time to contest Iowa. The Bush campaign is a balloon kept aloft by a thin membrane...