Word: repeating
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...ragtime duet called Play a Simple Melody, written by Irving Berlin back in 1914. He had some of the old man's verve, if not much of the voice. Decca Records' Dave Kapp heard it, last month got the Crosbys, father & son, to do a repeat in front of a recording mike. By last week, Play a Simple Melody -with its companion piece, Sam's Song-was a runaway bestseller: more than 300,000 records had been sold in less than three weeks...
...speech to the nation was almost a repeat of the studied, sober-sided message he had delivered to the U.S. Congress a few hours earlier. For days, White House advisers and ghostwriters had turned out draft after draft-five in all. Clark Clifford and Judge Sam Rosenman, a couple of presidential phrase-turners from the old days, had dropped in during the week to help rub on some gloss...
...President, marked a new era in East-West relations. "This attack has made it clear, beyond all doubt," he said in a dry, controlled voice, "that the international communist movement is willing to use armed invasion to conquer independent nations ... It was an act of raw aggression ... I repeat: It was an act of raw aggression...
...esthetic side of education, Dr. Skinner taught some pigeons to peck out a tune on a simplified piano (i.e., the basic theme of Take Me Out to the Ball Game). Exploring his pigeons' personalities, he came to the conclusion that many were prone to superstition. They tended to repeat any action that had, in the past, produced food. Some became addicted to complicated rituals, hoping that twirlings and bowings, repeated in a fixed sequence, would yield a reward of food. Even when these actions had no effect, the pigeons clung to them hopefully...
...over what they were last year at this time. In an age of darkness and insecurity, Seniors are heeding the Legend and are taking no chances. Most of them, that is. A few, apparently, have not heard Pumpton's tale, or they have received it in garbled form. We repeat it here for their benefit only...