Word: repeating
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bach snite that could have been conducted by Stokowski. The opening grave was played somewhat slower than is customary, and the dances were speeded up to a tempo at which no one could possibly dance. Ten counter-basses were employed for this piece of chamber music, and a gratuituous repeat was added to the final gigue...
...Communists stood a poor chance at the polls. The Soviet-zone press failed to report that the Social Democrats had set conditions: both parties must be organized on a national scale and the merger approved by majority vote of the Socialist rank & file. The Socialists did not want to repeat the fatal rivalry of the 19205; but they obviously sought to evade Russian pressure for an outright merger's kiss of death...
...those who wondered where Father Bing O'Crosby went when he walked off into the night, Leo McCarey has provided an answer, hopefully attempting to repeat his former success. But his often knavish imitation gives his audience the uneasy feeling of seeing the same movie twice, while his efforts to differ in details lead him to inconsistency...
...Repeat Performance. In Covington, Ky., police charged that Robert Thompson 1) parked a stolen car, 2) watched them find it and put it in a garage, 3) stole it again...
...Japanese general rose to defend himself, spectators began to experience an uneasy perplexity. The chunky Japanese neither cringed nor swaggered. He bowed politely to the five U.S. generals sitting as judges. With ponderous dignity he instructed the Nisei interpreter: "Yamashita wants no mistakes. On long sentences I will repeat them twice. Listen carefully." Then he seated himself in the witness chair, denied that he had ever known of Philippine atrocities, much less condoned or ordered them...