Word: dingdong
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rose John J. ("Silent John") Bennett Jr., Attorney General of New York State, to make his first majrar political speech in the dingdong struggle over the Democratic nomination for the Governorship of New York. James Aloysius Farley had kept his man Bennett quiet and withdrawn from the battlefield. This stratagem had two advantages: 1) it kept Silent John from making any mistakes; 2) it left Big Jim free to smite hip & thigh the candidacy of Senator James M. Mead, the man of Franklin Roosevelt...
Among the Navy's most important achievements were attacks on Jap convoys. One night a handful of U.S. destroyers shot up a whole fleet of transports. In the dingdong battle of the Coral Sea, two Japanese aircraft carriers and 18 other vessels were the victims. Meanwhile, with no to do, U.S. submarines have kept up a running campaign against the Jap supply lines...
While Navy subs bagged a 7,100-ton cruiser and two Jap cargo vessels, MacArthur's airmen reached far & wide for the Jap's shipping and air installations. The dingdong raiding across the wilds of New Guinea went on daily, with the Jap pounding at the U.S. airdromes at Port Moresby while American and Australian crews smashed the Jap's docks, sheds and ships at Salamaua...
...This was dingdong business, and likely to be for some time, since each side needed more power to strike a decisive blow. The Jap, for one, was piling up his tools. Pilots told of increasing numbers of Jap ships headed for New Guinea and New Britain off to the east. The United Nations knew that might mean anything, even an assault on Australia itself. They halfway hoped it would come, felt more confident as the days went by that they could stop the Jap. But they were less sure than they were a week...
...Lyric Laughter, Guiterman occasionally takes his own pleasures and predicaments seriously, tries to write about them in fitting words. A solemn dingdong is the result...