Word: repeatable
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...arrogant and a little insecure, but people had always called him Dudley Do-Right, and it never occurred to him that could change. Six months later, during the furor over his campaign fund-raising adventures, the same belief in his goodness led Gore to call a press conference and repeat "no controlling legal authority" seven times--and with that, his ugly new image was set in stone...
...Wilderness Hunter," Roosevelt records this moment: "On the way an eagle came soaring over head, and I shot at it twice without success. Having once killed an eagle on the wing with a rifle, I always have a lurking hope that sometime I may be able to repeat the feat. I revenged myself for the miss by knocking a large blue goshawk out of the top of a blasted spruce." An eagle! Potshots at the national bird...
...mumbling--which forced me to repeat commands again and again--turned out to be the first of many problems. More annoying was mastering each service's navigation system. For example, I couldn't just dial up Tellme and say, "Give me the name of a good drama playing at my local theater." Instead, I had to say "movies" (pause), "Upper West Side" (pause), "drama" (pause). Then, after listening to a long list of films, I had to bark out more commands to get show times. Speaking like a robot and getting lost in a verbal maze was so annoying...
With their promises of disruption fulfilled and many of their ranks in jail, protesters met again on Wednesday to repeat the fracas. Scattered disruptions popped up throughout the city, all peaceful, and the police entered their third day of double shifts. Officers once again saturated the streets, stopping young groups and leisurely checking identification...
...then there's the girl with the shuttlecock, that magical little refugee from a Piero della Francesca, all inwardness as she contemplates the sneak serve she is about to make. The painting's visual rhymes are delicious. Each feather of the shuttlecock, for instance, repeats some element of her appearance. White feathers repeat the white of her apron; a blue feather picks up the blue of her ribbon; a pink feather, the color of her cheek. It is as perfectly made as any sonnet. It makes you realize what rewards can flow from Chardin's desire to link the appearance...