Word: repeat
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...playing three seeds higher than last year, failed to repeat his decisive four-game victory from one year ago. Co-Captain Jon Masland played points analogous to cucumbers--long and cool--sinking Kim in three games...
Those are the hypothetical extremes: best case, worst case. Americans in a muscular frame of mind (not quite trusting it, however) like to think that they might repeat Israel's 1967 victory: the brilliant lightning strikes, the armies flashing across the desert, the war over quicker than Saturday-morning cartoons...
...enforcement officials had an explanation: they feared a repeat of the media circus that surrounded the celebrated Stuart murder case, when police scoured the city for a black assailant only to learn that the real killer was the victim's white husband. Some community leaders insisted that if Harbour had been white and middle class instead of a poor black crack addict, the case would have been widely publicized. What they failed to note was that this crime was probably not about race but about gender. Before their rampage, the suspects, who were black and Hispanic, allegedly declared that they...
...characteristics: an irresistible envelope, a personalized typewritten letter, a brochure intended to give an as yet nonexistent product an aura of legitimacy, and a response card. Jayme and Ratalahti know that people do not read direct-mail pitches carefully, so they adhere to a simple axiom: state the message, repeat it -- then repeat it again...
Despite such reflexive gestures, however, and ritual references to "((South Korean President)) Roh Tae Woo and his cutthroats," Pyongyang takes pains to absolve its southern brothers of most blame. The history books allude only to the "war between America and North Korea," and the North Koreans constantly repeat that theirs is a "homogeneous nation," though nothing could be further from the raucous vivacity of Seoul than Pyongyang's unearthly quiet. Just three years ago, North Korean saboteurs bombed a Korean Air Lines plane in the hope of sabotaging the Seoul Olympics and killed 115 people; now, having seen unification come...