Word: repeating
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Will the American people ever learn? la 1944 they elected a walking corpse President of the United States. Will they repeat that costly blunder...
...Development, who quit his job in disgust with the slow pace of the missiles program, said he would "vote the straight Democratic ticket." ¶The Scripps-Howard newspaper chain, which endorsed Eisenhower-Nixon in 1952, polled the editors of its 19 papers for 1956 sentiments, got back a unanimous repeat endorsement...
What's a Ghetto? In the past few years, as more and more Orientals flounder, flunk and repeat, some European parents have begun demanding separate schools for them. "The Oriental child." says
Brooklyn's own poetess-laureate, Pulitzer Prizewinning Marianne Moore, 68, was moved to dash off a Hometown Piece, celebrating the Dodger baseball team and urging it to repeat its last year's glory in the World Series (see SPORT). Though a pot of doggerel in comparison to Poetess Moore's finest work, Piece was nonetheless a heartfelt exhortation and, according to Marianne, could even be warbled to the tune of an old folk song that sometimes begins, "Hush, li'l baby, don' say a word, mamma's gonna buy you a mockin'-bird...
When Larry's father asked him to repeat his conversation with President Eisenhower, the boy said stiffly that he considered it "private and off the record." But after a little fatherly persuasion Larry explained that he told the President he had a note from his mother to Mrs. Frances Berard, fourth-grade teacher at John Eaton School, asking that he be excused for tardiness on this special occasion. That seemed to satisfy the President. He released the boy, grinned and said goodbye before he walked away...