Word: repeated
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When Senator McCarthy refused last week to appear in Judge Bailey Aldrich's courtroom for the pending trial of Professor Wendell Furry, the Senator said he wanted to avoid giving Judge Aldrich a chance to repeat the "insult" he delivered to the Senate by refusing to uphold its contempt citation against Leon J. Kamin. The bitterness with which McCarthy accused the Judge of a lack of objectivity in "communist" cases, however, made it seem likely that the Wisconsin Senator was concerned more with his own dignity than that of the Senate, and was anxious to avoid a setback similar...
...extremely happy position, being here in - - one of the few subscribers of TIME Magazine. This exceptional position I owe your understanding of my difficulties ... I don't intend to write to you, Sir, anything about the advantages of this magazine because they are worldwide known, but I must repeat the same sentence I have written you almost five years ago: TIME is for me an immeasurable source of infor mation; in our present conditions, it is even more - it represents for me the only 'golden thread' in my monotonous and uninteresting life...
...longtime guide and mentor, was against the idea almost from the beginning. Others joined in after Khrush and Bulgy made their circus tour of India and Burma, spraying gratuitous insults at Britain. Snapped that professional angry man Lord Vansittart, longtime head of Britain's Foreign Service: "May I repeat for the ninth time what I said so often in Hitler's day-those who ask to be deceived must not grumble if they are gratified." There was even talk of canceling the invitation, but cooler heads persuaded everyone that if Whitehall really put its talents to being coolly...
...other countries were using genetics to improve their crop yields mightily, the Soviet Union fell behind. None of Lysenko's alleged achievements ever proved practical. Most of his startling, experimental "results," never described in full detail, appear to have been caused by sloppy procedure. Western experts could never repeat his experiments and make them come out the way he said they...
...world championship, ended one of the most memorable series in baseball history and closed the most colorful major league rivalry of the last ten years. Today, on the tenth anniversary of the season which gave these two teams their last pennants, it appears almost certain that cyclical history will repeat itself...