Word: rerun
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...become a familiar yet alarming summer rerun. Every September teachers in scores of communities across the nation would go on strike, loudly demanding higher pay and better working conditions. In other cities, white parents would take to the streets, outraged that a federal court had ordered them to desegregate their schools even if it meant busing their children into formerly black schools. By last week, however, it was clear that this year was different. Despite the harsh, unsolved problems of integration and finance, U.S. schools passed through the annual two-week period of school re-openings with far fewer crises...
After that, the process works like a luxurious assembly line. A technician takes blood and sends it to the adjacent laboratory for both blood-cell and chemistry readings. The results, along with those of urinalysis, are fed into the computer, which is programmed to rerun any tests that show questionable results. The electrocardiogram, usually elaborate, is also checked by the computer and can be double-checked if any abnormality appears...
...NCAA Swimming and Diving Championships, looking more and more like last year's rerun, concluded the second of three days of competition yesterday as Indiana slowly gathered steam and began pulling away from the field. Harvard, with only one entrant, again failed to score...
...tribal peoples. It is a familiar story, especially to North Americans, who had the despair of their dead Indians raised to a grand passion in last year's bestseller Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee. Bodard's brutal epic does even more. It gives North Americans a rerun of their own haunted past as seen through Brazil's uneasy present...
...campaign was an unexciting rerun of 1952 since most Democrats correctly believed that Eisenhower was unbeatable. After a June defeat in the California primary. Kefauver realized that he could not overtake Stevenson, and withdrew from the race. He won a personal victory by beating back John F. Kennedy's challenge for the vice-presidential nomination, but despite travelling 60,000 miles through 38 states and shaking an estimated 100,000 hands, Kefauver could not aid himself and Stevenson against Ike's tremendous popularity...