Word: lulls
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Moviegoers didn't exactly stampede the nation's box offices during the last couple of months. Local theatermen, according to Variety, offered various explanations for the slump. First there was the Lenten lull. After Easter, the weather was too warm in some parts of the country-and in other parts too rainy or too cold. Manhattan was too busy with its vaccinations. Some exhibitors just admitted that the movies they were offering were nothing to stampede about...
...hopelessly behind schedule. Few Congresses have accomplished much in their first nine weeks. But Leader Bob Taft was sensitive. He blamed the Democrats for "deliberate" stalling-a defense which roused the conservative Washington Star's Cartoonist Jim Berryman to gibe right back. He threatened to break the lull by calling the Senate into daily and nightly sessions. This week, with other party leaders, he held a unity meeting with the G.O.P. freshmen and promised them two places on the G.O.P. Policy Committee...
Snapping back strongly after a long exam-period lull, the Varsity squash team smashed out two quick wins last week, 8-1 over Amherst on Friday followed by a decisive 5-1 shellacing of Trinity the next day. A perfect slate was marred only by two defeats suffered by Adam Foster, playing number one, who was set back by the top man of both opposing squads...
...lull between peace conferences the U.S. could look back with a sense of achievement to the mission accomplished by patiently firm Jimmy Byrnes; it looked ahead with confident hope to General Marshall in the even tougher job ahead...
Airline men, taking the same view, acknowledged, however, that air travel has fallen off. They emphasized that there is customarily a seasonal lull at this time of year, though some of them said plane crashes were also a factor in the situation