Word: lulls
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dealing Senator Clyde La Verne Herring. Regarded as Iowa's best vote-getting Democrat, Clyde Herring stands in imminent prospect of defeat at the hands of long-faced Republican Governor George A. Wilson. Venerable George Norris planned to go back to Nebraska, if there was a lull in Senate work, to make a personal appeal for reelection. George Norris' job now is to head off front-running Republican Kenneth S. Wherry, automobile and furniture dealer and embalmer. Known in every part of the State, Kenneth Wherry threatens to end George Norris' Washington career of 40 years...
...battle for Stalingrad blazed into full fury again after a protracted lull, the High Command reported. Implying that the struggle was raging unabated, it said "our men are selflessly repelling furious enemy attacks...
Delayed news reports and naval reticence prevented an up-to-the-minute picture of the action. But correspondents last week were allowed to cable that a temporary lull presumably meant the Japanese were readying a seaborne task force to recapture old positions. Chungking reported that the Japanese naval command had detailed four battleships to the Solomons area. Army Flying Fortresses spotted and bombed a strong naval force northeast of Tulagi, but could claim only "possible hits" on two battleships. A sea-&-air battle on the scale of Midway and the Coral Sea was imminent...
...heads. Throwing away Goodman's "Somebody Else Is Taking My Place," once you've tired of the tune, is like turning Beethoven's Fifth in for scrap because you know the ... theme. There's more to Goodman's record than the melody, the words, and Peggy Lee. After a lull of two months, it can be unexpectedly exciting. You can trace this to this arrangement (Eddie Sauter's?), which is distinctly first-rate. If Goodman had played the tune as specified by the publishers, it probably would have died a-borning. As the facts go, the record was Goodman...
Wartime football at Harvard starts again this wook after a paceful lull of 23 years when oologist Dick Harlow arrives back from his vacation tomorrow to size up Crimson grid material for next fall's season...