Word: repeating
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Communists, hoping to repeat in London the bloody Ridgway riots that greeted NATO Supreme Commander General Matthew B. Ridgway in Paris, failed to take the British character of their countrymen into account. When the Communists tried to spread leaflets, seven were arrested on charges of disorderly behavior and dropping "litter . . . otherwise than in a proper receptacle." Other comrades sneaked up to the U.S. embassy in tree-lined Grosvenor Square and daubed "Yank, Go Home" messages across the windshields of a line of U.S. cars...
...From Soviet State and Law: "Truman's America hastens to repeat Hitler's Germany . . . The U.S.A. is now in a state of war hysteria...
...that point. Doris Ann had been lucky. She had taken each word slowly, often asking the pronouncer to repeat it for her. But her opponent, Marjorie Foliart of Crafton, Pa., was a speller who could go both forwards and backwards. To add to the tension, the spelling bee suddenly had a visitation: Secretary of Commerce Charles Sawyer came down from his office to witness the final rounds...
...Emperor of Japan wanted to hire an American lady to teach his eldest son English, and several important U.S. educators sent in the names of likely candidates. Finally the decision came in the form of a cable. "The Imperial Household," said the cable from Japan, "has decided on Vining (repeat) Vining...
...crush on Haydn for 22 years. As a young man, he and three other musicians sat for most of two days and nights playing all of the old master's 83 string quartets, while friends fed and watered them. Vilna-born "Sasha" Schneider has always wanted to repeat the performance-at leisure-for a public audience. Last week he and his new Schneider Quartet wrapped up a cycle of 16 concerts-some 40 hours of music in all-with Haydn's seven quartet interludes for the Lenten season, The Seven Last Words of Christ...