Word: spells
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...blow came during the worst spell of winter within the memory of most Britons. Drifting snow had cut many important rail lines; many roads were blocked. Machinery at some mines was frozen over. The gap between Britain's long-dwindling coal production and consumption had thinned to the point of immediate disaster to Britain's export program and threat to her entire economy...
...Wilson is presently engaged in developing the massive new University cyclotron that will be assembled near Oxford and Everett Streets sometime this spring. Cement-pouring operations on the three-foot concrete base that will support the atom-smasher will be speeded up by the recent break in a cold spell that had frozen the site...
...seven months of the bear market, stocks have fallen so much and trading has been so dull that many a company has not been able to float new security issues, get cash needed for expansion. Four days before the FRB announcement, the market had its worst sinking spell in nearly two months. Stocks fell one to ten points; the Dow-Jones industrial averages dropped 2.76 points to 172.49. The day after the announcement, the market, which had recovered somewhat, bounced up, even though margin trading would not actually start till February...
...original signatories to bi-lateral agreements between the Greeks and the Russians, or the Turks and the Russians. If the presence of Japan at Montreux relegates this treaty to the scrap-heap, Europe can look to a new wave of forced agreements between unequal bargaining units that would spell death to the U.N. system and smack too strongly of the pilgrimages of European statesmen to Berchtesgaden...
...Yearling's dramatic scenes are cunningly, almost too-knowingly manipulated, but they are nonetheless effective: the bear hunt, the ruinous rainy spell, Pa's near-fatal snake bite, the deer killing, Jody's perpetual wonder at a wonderful world, Penny Baxter's deep and tender understanding of his wife's and son's troubles. Underscoring all these emotion-mauling theatrics is a musical background that sounds as if it might have been recorded by the Heavenly Choir itself...