21.   Why wait until now to lower the boom?

22.   Like Clancy in the ballad, Irish writers over the years have gleefully lowered the boom on each other.

23.   Should they try such stunts now, or even suggest them, somebody like Nan Stuart would lower the boom.

24.   When WGN lowered the boom in March, general manager and vice president John Vitanovec said it was necessary because the audience was continuing to decline.

25.   Dozens of people trapped in upper floors of burning buildings were brought down by lowering the booms of cranes at nearby construction sites.