Word: spells
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...breathing spell will follow the Nazi campaign in Russia. Hitler will try to make peace. Rauschning does not believe the British will accept a truce, or the Russians either. But the German military machine is worn down by its losses in Russia-Hitler cannot hope to invade Britain for another year at least. Nor can Britain hope to invade Europe. Therefore a sort of undeclared peace will follow World War II, while Germany prepares for World...
...official weather reporter for Pierre and vicinity, Mrs. McNeil in her little white cottage (KGFX is just off the living room) gives out some of the fiercest temperature figures recorded in the U.S. From the Badlands to the eastern lakes a winter cold spell may mean 46° below, an August afternoon 115° above. Even on days like that, when a lot of people in South Dakota are feeling poorly, brisk Mrs. McNeil puts in her eight 'hours at the microphone...
...second team backfield Summers proved his versatility by blossoming forth in the tailback position. At the beginning of the year he was listed as a wingback, and when McNicol was out he served as a fullback. Now, apparently, he is regarded as the man to spell Wilson...
...full twenty minutes to find the place, and when they finally did it turned out to have so much "atmosphere" that Vag was sure she would think it a joint. The menu was filled with foreign names that seemed as long and complicated to cook as they were to spell. It was so late when they finished eating that, if he hoped to get back to Briggs by the ten o'clock deadline, movies were out of the question. So they walked slowly up Washington Street, eye-feasting in several open jewelry stores and auctions, pricing cocktail shakers, pewter beer...
...infant prodigy (Latin at six, Harvard at twelve), the greatest orator between Patrick Henry and Henry Clay (Congress adjourned after one of his speeches, to let the spell of his eloquence expire), Fisher Ames looked like one of the most promising statesmen in U.S. history. But when Jefferson became President, launched his plans to reform the courts, bought Louisiana without bothering with Congress, Fisher Ames became a prophet of doom...