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Word: repeating (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Holland in 1918, the Dutch people fed and helped starving German children, but the same children came back in 1940 with tanks and hand grenades to kill their well-doers-and history will repeat itself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 26, 1949 | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

...transpires, bestowed their pre-matrimo-nial favors. Simultaneously the husbands discover they have both enjoyed the pre-matrimonial favors of Clutterbuck's wife (Claire Carleton). From there in, the play concentrates on how the six of them purr and perspire, recall the past and are moved to repeat it; on their catting and torn catting, their hurried feints and sudden swoons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Plays in Manhattan, Dec. 12, 1949 | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

...good performance of a Gilbert and Sullivan operetta in that the performers enjoy themselves. The Canterbury players who gave "Patience" at the Christ Church Parish House last night, and who will repeat tonight, had a better time by far acting than the audience had listening. The result was a great show...

Author: By Brenton Welling, | Title: THE MUSIC BOX | 12/10/1949 | See Source »

...entertainment, the United Nations was shaping up as better than anything else on daytime television. Dramatically, the chief flaw was still the tendency of the opposing orators to repeat their arguments over & over again. As one of the Brooklyn teen-agers complained: "They just say what they think or what their country thinks, but they don't listen to anyone else. Once a person finishes talking, he goes to sleep already. He just listens to his own side and thinks he's right all the time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Newer Than Baseball | 12/5/1949 | See Source »

...defendant ran from two suspicious policemen and threw his pistol into a lot, how he was caught, dragged back, and how the weapon was found. They tell of his pleas for mercy, made at first in Italian through a court interpreter, and finally in English, and they repeat the words of a forgotten judge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: I Never Sold Any Bibles | 11/28/1949 | See Source »

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