Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Tinkling Piano in the Next Apartment (Herm Saunders; Warner Bros. LP). "Caution!" says the record jacket. "Play softly, it's cool inside." The menace is not the heat-or lack of it-but the humidity; in a mystifying effort, the record makers have dubbed in sounds of cheetering sea gulls and the tumbling waves of "a mythical Malibu." The Sea-Around-Us effect is unfortunate only because what comes filtering through the combers-in These Foolish Things and I'll Remember April-seems to be a fine and lacily fanciful cocktail piano...
Martin's 74 years were held against him. Many Republicans felt that his leadership in political battles had withered into listlessness and lack of imagination compared to his heroic days in 1939 (his first year as Republican leader) when, he boasts, "We had only 169 Republicans in the House, and we beat the New Deal in 18 major battles in a row." Some also hint that his warm friendship with Democratic Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn led Martin to compromise on the Republican position more than necessary...
...satisfactory arrangement has yet been worked out between the two political organizations, however, due to the lack of sufficient information...
...after becoming Premier. Only four months later, when he abruptly ordered all French army officers to resign from the insurrectionary Committees of Public Safety, did the right-wing Europeans of Algiers realize that what he had meant was that he understood them and disapproved. Last week, with almost equal lack of forewarning, De Gaulle suddenly began churning out a series of decrees that he had been quietly preparing ever since his return to power last June. Among them...
...first opponent, the varsity started slowly and spent the rest of the game trying to catch a team it had defeated earlier in the season. Led by Jeff Morton's 22 points and Jim Willmott's 20, the Ephmen won handily, 83 to 67. Coach Wilson cited the lack of rebounding strength as the Crimson's downfall. High scorers for the varsity were Bill Richling with 16, George Harrington with 13, and Mike Donohue with...