Word: repeats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first time that the thousand-year-old House of Savoy (rulers of Italy since 1861) had broken a contract. In 1915 Vittorio Emanuele had shifted Italy from its alliance with the Hohenzollern and the Habsburg into the Allied camp. Now perhaps he was trying to repeat the past, trying to assure the future for himself and his son, tall, fast-living Crown Prince Umberto...
...leave it to your intelligence to decide whether it is likely that we should waste our efforts on targets whose destruction is useless for our purpose. . . . We repeat that we shall be aiming at military objectives...
...Representatives come back to Washington, the burning questions of Congressional independence and Congressional value will be fresher than ever. In 154 years, Congress has often been the butt. Mark Twain put it savagely: "Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself." Artemus Ward cried: "Congress, you won't do. Go home you mizzerable devils-go home!" But Congress is used to brickbats and other forms of political rudeness native to the U.S. scene. Congress knows that it can discount a good deal of the characteristically jeering American attitude toward...
...youth goes wrong, sooner or later all goes wrong. . . . I believe that in the prevention of World War No. 3 - in keeping faith with the boys who have given their lives - much will depend on just how we handle the German youth immediately following this war. . . . We must not repeat the mistakes made by the Allies after World War I. This time we must see that the defeat of Germany is complete. . . . And we must not again fail the German young people who, in the depth of their material hunger and misery, will have a great philosophic and spiritual hunger...
Dahlberg's visions-which he outlined last week to the American Society of Planning Officials and hopes to repeat before a Senate Committee some weeks hence-have a utilitarian, ulterior purpose. He espouses a 24-hour work week because then people will spend more time at home. Then they will want a decent home. Result: millions of cheap new houses must be built...