Word: spells
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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George Franklin Slosson, recovering at 90 from a spell of pneumonia and nervous prostration, has been a little off his billiard game lately. His high runs have been down around 60. In a week or so he expects to be shooting runs of 100 again...
...solid patches of snow. But the miracle had happened. Throughout North Dakota, the big thaw had come. The hard-bitten men who farm the northern tip of the onetime poverty-stricken U.S. "dust bowl" had survived a decade of dust, drought. WPA, grasshoppers, mortgages. Now, after a three-year spell of war and golden weather, they could afford a little fun in town...
...Highland Fling" has its high and low spots which when considered together spell out only fair entertainment. A sort of dual plot provides the main themes for the play: the removal of the ancient Scottish Stone of Scone upon which the Scottish Kings were crowned, and the reformation of a reprobate Scotsman are intermingled to produce many comic and many not-so-comic situations...
...East did he reveal his secret. He had been getting his dope from his batman, a coal black Xosa named Filemon. Filemon had been a tribal weather prophet of renown. He had joined the army only after an embarrassment involving a long-range weather forecast, a perversely unexpected dry spell, and his tribe's 1940 corn crop...
Moscow censors permitted a Reuters correspondent to spell out one reason for the recent friction between Russia and her allies. The cabled reason: "Widespread belief among Russians that the date of the second front has been postponed...