Word: repeats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Wilkes-Barre? As a result of the inaccessibility of airports, said the CAA, and the relatively slow cruising speed and limited range of light planes, the net time saved over the automobile on short trips would be slim. Sternly the CAA concluded: if manufacturers repeat their prewar mistake of overselling the light plane, the demand will be "washed out in a wave of disillusion...
...primary importance of air power. "The Navy had the transport to make the invasion of Japan possible; the ground forces had the power to make it successful; and the B6-29s made it unnecessary." Alabama's Senator Hill was so struck by this statement that he had Doolittle repeat...
...likes most to see-flowers, faces and figures. He believes art should be a "mental soother . . . devoid of troubling or depressing subject matter. ... It is through [the human figure] that I best succeed in expressing the nearly religious feeling that I have towards life. ... I do not care to repeat [details] with anatomical exactness." The pictures look as though Matisse had been looking at the model, not the paper, and acting out what he saw with fine, free-swinging gestures of his right hand. "When you draw a tree," he explains, "you should have the feeling to reach up with...
...timing, intonation and repetition which made Jerry Colonna's "Who's Yehudi?" funny to U.S. audiences is a rough U.S. equivalent of ITMA's appeal. Like Fred Allen, Jack Benny and Bob Hope, Handley has a stock set of characters who repeat nonsense lines which English listeners love to wrap into their own conversation at apt moments. A visitor to England would probably need to know ITMA to understand ordinary street, pub and Army humor. Examples...
...loss for tomorrow's game of Bill Jenkins, best open-field runner on the squad, of guards Ted Woggon and Mal Allen, and of end Paul Champion will undoubtedly make the Crimson less favored to repeat its 13 to 6 victory over the Jumbos in last year's opener...