Word: lull
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...aggressive action and much prospect of increased difficulties--such is the picture Italy has to contemplate. Even a few weeks hence we may see faces replaced in Rome, an ambiguous League policy redirected and an even more paradoxical neutrality policy in the United States overturned. In itself, the lull in African warfare means less than nothing. The quiet is a surface calm. Mussolini's barometer is dropping fast. By the same token, the monarchial barometer is rising...
...saved from worse tortures only because the commander wanted her for himself. Released by the commander's son, she joined Macedonian raiders who operated over the Bulgarian border, found herself with Todor Alexandrov, most famed and mysterious of Macedonian terrorists. During a wild, cross-country flight, in a lull between battles, he became her lover. She lived in Sofia in a house that was always guarded, was trained to carry messages whose meaning she did not know, traveled as a lady of fashion on the Orient Express, lived the queer, nerve-wracking life of a professional conspirator. Slowly...
...Tennessean . . . that (Iraniland Rice first rose to full power. He had worked . . . with Suter in a publishing business in Washington. He joined the Tennessean under contract to produce daily one lull editorial column feature (mostly verse) called "Tennessee-Uns" and to handle sports. He wrote nearly a full column of sports verse and views daily. The only way he could write was with both legs spraddled across the typewriter, lolling back in an armchair. And no wonder, considering his daily output...
...critical position in foreign affairs?' It was in trying to find an answer to the question that I made up my mind the other day on the precise date of the election. ... I saw last week that, as far as could be seen ahead . . . there was coming a lull in foreign affairs, and as far as I could see it would be perfectly safe to hold an election in that time. I could not say the same for January...
This last proved too much for Great Britain's Prime Minister during the Great War, hoary David Lloyd George. Cried he: "Can anyone recall since the Great War a more sinister moment than now? So, if there is a 'lull,' it must mean that this Government has given guarantee: The Foreign Secretary shakes his head but if he says that no guarantees have been given by the Government to Italy, then I cannot understand what the Prime Minister meant by his amazing reference to 'the lull.'" Since for electioneering purposes His Majesty's Government...