Word: repeat
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...father promised not to take Pete away on the family's summer vacations. "I never set foot out of Cincinnati," Rose says uncomplainingly, "until I went off to the minor leagues." Rather than allow summer school to intrude on a baseball season, Pete's father made him repeat the tenth grade. "My dad and I lived sports together. We were playing basketball together in 1970 the night before he had a heart attack and died...
...white Mineworkers' Union is fighting to preserve the job reservation system. Union officials have warned that if blacks are issued blasting certificates there will be a repeat of the 1922 "red revolt," when mineworker riots forced then Prime Minister Jan Smuts to declare martial law. At the annual meeting of the union's general council, Mineworkers' President Cor de Jager denounced the government commission's recommendation that skilled jobs be opened to all races. Said he: "For the sake of the money bosses and the blacks, the white workers are to be placed on an altar...
Unless Smith chooses to repeat her confession for the police, she probably is in no more jeopardy now than before the Enquirer article. Indeed, her lawyer says she may file suit against the tabloid, which Smith claims misrepresented her. In any event, says Booth: "You can't get a criminal filing based on what's in a newspaper." If you are Cathy Smith, though, you can get some attention...
...minor-league Fenway Park, dark green and full of splinters, but some people imagine stained-glass windows. "I enjoyed even losing," said Evonne Goolagong Cawley, who "happened to win Wimbledon in 1971" at the age of 19 and "thought nothing of it." But she was blessed to repeat two years ago. "I could appreciate it then, actually enjoy it," she said. "During my pregnancies, I did all the things I'd missed out on. Now I treasure playing tennis and being excited at Wimbledon." With a pretty smile, she took her leave in the second round this year...
Would history continue to repeat itself? Argentine Goalkeeper Ubaldo Fillol unwittingly decided the matter: he charged at the Belgian. Vanderbergh reflexively laced a shot through Fillol's fingers. Final score: 1-0. Modest Belgium-a 28-to-l long shot-had humiliated one of the game's most revered powers. Adios tradition...