Word: repeating
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...customer finds that his car is bringing less on the open market than his outstanding balance, the stage is set for another repossession.'' Moreover, said NADA, terms of three years or five years keep customers out of the market too long. "In a business which depends on repeat trade, this can be fatal . . . It's up to dealers to put a stop to crazy credit...
...Conversation (Wed. 8 p.m., NBC). A repeat broadcast of "Science Fiction." Discussed by Aldous Huxley, Marc Connelly, Clifton Fadiman...
...what only a very few can do." He learned that "a criticism written without personal feeling is not worth reading . . . When my critical mood is at its height, personal feeling is not the word: it is passion: the passion for artistic perfection . . . The true critic, I repeat, is the man who becomes your personal enemy on the sole provocation of a bad performance." And he decided that the quick, deadline-ducking judgments delivered by newspaper critics could be valid: "The only compositions which will bear thinking of for more than half an hour are those which require an intimate acquaintance...
...meet here for a simple purpose," said the President. "We are not here merely to catalogue our differences. We are not here to repeat the same dreary exercises that have characterized most of our negotiations of the past ten years. We are here in response to the peaceful aspirations of mankind ... to inject a new spirit into our diplomacy...
Something about his cell mate's tale clicked in José's memory, and he brooded over it. He asked Abdias to repeat the dates and places. A fortnight ago, as the two men basked in the prison courtyard sun, José blurted out: "Abdias, do you still hate the man who clubbed you?" Abdias replied philosophically: "No, those are the risks of our trade." With a sigh José unburdened himself: "Abdias, my friend, forgive me. I was on the other end of that club. You are supposed to be dead, and I am serving time...