Word: repeats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Gambit and the "What a Pity" Probe, but for all-round utility, he recommends "plonking." Writes Potter: "If you have nothing to say-or, rather, something extremely stupid and obvious-say it, but in a plonking tone of voice-that is, roundly, wisely, and dogmatically; or take up and repeat with slight variation, in this tone of voice, the last phrase of the speaker." Thus...
...spite of the closeness of the last race, though, Harvard is more than likely to repeat its victory. Mit, while it was in front, rowed about three beats over Harvard and as soon as Crimson stroke Louis McCagg ordered a higher count, his shell moved steadily ahead...
...touching the ground, so seven divine maidens took turns passing it from one to the other. Every time the head reached another daughter, a New Year began. Since the angry god's head was red-hot, it had to be cooled by water. Now, while the Burmese symbolically repeat the old ceremony, the victorious god is believed to come to earth to look things over...
This is an interesting fact, especially so since the Braves won the 1948 National League pennant and are predicted to repeat this year. It is also a fact which has given this bureau a revolutionary theory on How to Win Baseball Games...
Tonight, at 7:15, I intend to stand at the Subway kiosk and repeat the following: "Who was that lady I saw you with last night? That was no lady, that was my wife." This should tie up traffic as far as Watertown. And, as it is a slur not only on Womankind, but, by extension, on Motherhood as well, I expect arrest. Constant Reader