Word: hiatus
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...British War Office mysteriously announced that it had reserved a "special appointment" for Lieut. General Sir Henry Pownall. Last week, after an embarrassing hiatus, Sir Henry arrived at Singapore and the War Office specified: he was to replace sleepy, overconfident Air Chief Marshal Sir Robert Brooke-Popham as Commander in Chief of British forces in the Far East...
...first thing Sir Henry did when he got to Singapore was to sit down with his staff to find out what had happened during the hiatus. He heard plenty...
...storm had been more than a hiatus in the men's activities. Before it the British had prepared and begun a large-scale raid on the Germans who held Salûm and Halfáya ("Hellfire") Pass, just east of the Egyptian-Libyan border. The storm broke up the raid, disorganized the British, and gave the Germans time to devise and organize a vast counter-raid...
Among the principals, Pert Kelton creates a slight hiatus with her renditions of "Stick to Your Arithmetic" and "I Was Afraid of That"; if you shut your eyes, Mr. Dixon's voice and tapping is entertaining--but these two score against very mediocre competition. Miss Martin is torrid only when she is coy, but her part herein demands that she be frigid, and hence her occasional attempts at coyness only serve to make her appear ridiculously childish. Furthermore, she has no song suited to either her voice or her personality, and she looks ill and overworked...
...helping the Allies to obtain loans and buy war supplies in the U. S. This is the gist of what the Nye committee established. But between this fact and the conclusion that the House of Morgan got Woodrow Wilson and Congress to declare war, there is a big hiatus of logic and of evidence...