Word: repeats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...outposts. Iraq and Iran would now at least be buffers. Britain's Middle Eastern Commander in Chief General Sir Claude John Eyre Auchinleck flew to Cyprus, where he declared himself well satisfied with defenses, particularly air fields, which had been rushed into being to prevent a Crete repeat...
...brink of inflation" could be substantiated by simple charts: wholesale prices of 28 basic commodities were up 50% since the beginning of the war; from the pre-war level food costs were up 13%, house furnishings 4.7%, clothing 3%. Without the price bill, the U.S. would repeat its experience of World War I, when (according to a Baruch estimate) inflation increased the Government's cost of war by $15,000,000,000, led to the disastrous panic of '21. It was that simple...
...late (Episcopal) Bishop Mosher of the Philippines once warned a visiting colleague: "I don't mind so much your confirming the ones I've confirmed, but try not to repeat on the ones both Brent (his predecessor) and I have done...
Upon listening to the broadcast as it progressed, my wife, two guests and I were startled to hear the speaker repeat himself, not once, but twice, three, four, five times-"and let us have-" "and let us have-" "and let us have-" "and let us have-." In a moment there was a telling "click" as the disse tation continued. According to the announcer, the speaker was Wodehouse in person. Was his face red when, in order to get Wodehouse "out of the groove," he had to move the needle along the recording? I doubt...
...repeat: Leopold Vindictive...