Word: repeat
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...know is that I didn't do it again. I didn't repeat my academic stardom either of the next two years, and I doubt I will this year. Sophomore and junior years have been terrific. I'm much happier getting average grades, going out a normal amount of times, and spending a lot of time talking and doing things with friends. It's important to learn a lot from your classes but also to learn from your friends and extracurriculars. In short, I love Harvard now. I'm happy here. Granted, it took awhile, but parents say freshman year...
...have blacks failed to advance and achieve the way old and new ethnic groups have? As Social Scientist Michael Harrington writes, "Why don't 'they' act like 'we' did? This has long been the cry of well-meaning white Americans who simply can't understand why blacks don't repeat the classic immigrant experience...
...before the vote, Reagan invited 30 members of Congress to the Oval Office to answer questions and repeat the assurances of his letter. The session produced at least one Pauline conversion. Tommy Robinson, a freshman Arkansas Democrat who voted against the first aid bill, declared dramatically, "Sometimes you have to be big enough to admit that you made a mistake. Mr. President, I made a mistake. My party is wrong. You are right...
Millions around the world watched their television sets or listened to their radios as the horrific drama unfolded. "He has pulled a hand-grenade pin and is ready to blow up the aircraft if he has to. We must, I repeat, we must land at Beirut. We must land at Beirut. No alternative." After much delay, the curious, grudging reply of the Beirut control tower: "Very well. Land. Land quietly. Land quietly." Then another desperate plea: "They are beating the passengers. They are threatening to kill the passengers. We want fuel now. Immediately. Five minutes at most...
...deny categorically that Mengele is in Paraguay," Paraguayan Under Secretary of the Interior Miguel Angel Bestrad said two months before the supreme court ruling. Stroessner himself told an interviewer last March, "I don't know where Mengele is. The Mengele question is a repeat question, like a long-playing record...