Word: repeats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...busy - writing. He writes for no censorship except truth as he sees it. He is just now putting the finishing touches to his new novel, They Fought for Their Country. Sholokhov gets his heroic effect by indirection. He does not find it necessary to rant or repeat cliches of patriotism. He writes what seems to me to be the truth about soldiers. He says: "How much does a man need in time of war? To get a little farther away from death than usual, to rest, to have a good sleep and eat his fill, to get a letter from...
Robert Donald, Hamilton, Ont., is one of Canada's 6,900 Jehovah's Witnesses.* He had sued the Hamilton school board for $2,600 after his two sons had been expelled from school for refusing to salute the flag, sing God Save the King or repeat an oath of allegiance. Justice John Andrew Hope dismissed the suit. Said he: "I can conceive of no more certain way of creating . . . friction amongst the pupils of a class as to their love of country, and their duty to their country, than by permitting haphazard compliance with the singing...
...motif of that pattern was on the point of being repeated again last week, the same motif repeated often before. It is a simple motif: strike a staggering blow, exploit it while the German army reels; then, as the enemy begins to recover, repeat the same thing at another point...
...expect you have seen in the paper reports of a speech I made to the Legislature on the same day on which you wrote that letter. This states my point of view and I need not repeat what I said then. I enclose a copy for your convenience if you wish to read...
Trapshooting tradition was upheld last week at Vandalia, Ohio. In 45 years there have been no repeat winners of the national amateur championship, no women victors. The Grand American Handicap* was captured by Leslie Jepsen, a sparse-haired, thin, nervous electrician from Dwight, Ill. He toed the mark at 19 yards with a pump gun borrowed from a neighbor at home (he broke his own two years ago) and hit 97 clay birds out of 100. His prize...