Word: repeat
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...turns to me and says, 'I go with women." Well that just floored me, I go with women, I couldn't believe it," he told the assembled coffee drinkers. "She just said, 'I go with women,' right there in that bar, and she was so beautiful." He proceeded to repeat the story, two more times...
Instead of helping to solve problems like "rampant drug use," "irresponsible sexuality" and high rape and murder rates, Black leaders merely repeat familiar charges of "slavery, racism, discrimination, and the callous policies of the Reagan administration," writes Professor of Public Policy Glenn C. Loury...
Saturday on Soldiers Field, the Crimson waited and waited, shot and shot, but despite several late rallies couldn't repeat last year's heroics. After 90 minutes of exhausting play, Harvard settled for a 0-0 tie with the Big Red in front of 100 spectators...
...kept very small. On the U.S. side, only Shultz, Poindexter and Regan are scheduled to sit at the table with the President. Reagan agreed to the meeting partly out of sheer self- confidence. His advisers believe he scored nothing short of a spectacular personal triumph at Geneva and can repeat it in Iceland. Politics entered into his motivation too. Regan judged that a successful presummit summit shortly before next month's congressional elections would allow Reagan to be perceived as a President who got superpower relations back on track, and thus boost his efforts to help Republican campaigners...
Aficionados may complain that not much is new in Nightingale. Like many people with long practice at being interviewed, Williams tended to repeat well-rehearsed witticisms. But the flavor is authentic, especially in such inverted cliches as "Symbols are just a way of saying something more directly" or "Miss Edwina (his mother) can best be described as a Prussian general -- an inefficient Prussian general." His phrase turning is ornamented $ with borrowings from other writers ("I like Dorothy Parker's line 'Scratch an actor and you'll find an actress' ") and fellow melancholics ("Tallulah said . . . 'If I had my life...