Word: repeating
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tolerating Fidel Castro, the big powers repeat their 1932 mistake of tolerating Hitler. Castro, Somoza and Trujillo all justify their crimes with the claim of defending the people. Castro openly murders (official word: executes) hundreds of those who dare to have different opinions, but strangely, everybody sees only the villainies of the other two. Is it because when they kill, they do not make a public show...
...were long English weekends at Chequers. Even Russia's Andrei Gromyko presumably took some dour relaxation, though he also returned to Geneva with Khrushchev's humiliating words ringing in his ear: "Gromyko only says what we tell him to say. At the next Geneva meeting, he will repeat what he has already told you. If he doesn't, we will fire...
...bellowing belligerently, Khrushchev made no secret of his cynical contempt for the foreign ministers' meeting at Geneva. "Gromyko." he said, pointing to his Foreign Minister sitting glumly at the foot of the table, "only says what we tell him to say. At the next Geneva meeting he will repeat what he has already told you. If he doesn't, we will fire him and get someone who does...
...successive 10-minute oral exams by ten gimlet-eyed professors. Those who fail in June (65%) get another chance in September; those who fail then (80%) stay at school another year. Notable first-round failures: Anatole France, Alphonse Daudet, Andre Gide, Franchise Sagan. Though some brave bachot bumblers repeat the year as many as six times, others (like Gide) bid adieu to formal education forever. One result: only 409 French youths per 100,000 population attend college, as compared to 1,950 in the U.S.-an alarming statistic in a classical-bent France yearning for scientific and technological power...
...tour, Malinda arrived with a chaperone, a pressagent and nine suitcases containing 25 costume changes (including a native dress for each land she would visit). But she had little time to enjoy them. Hardly was she through with her style show when she had to hop a plane to repeat the same act in Tokyo, then on to Osaka, Hong Kong, Manila, Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Honolulu and San Francisco...