Word: lull
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Stand by! The lull 'twixt blast and blast...
...R.A.F. would strike again, and there was no comfort for the Germans in the lull that followed the Hamburg raids. They knew the meaning of such pauses, during which bombers are overhauled, crews rested or replaced, new targets studied...
Much sounder, as fact and propaganda, were the sobering statements of Army and civilian production men who began a tour of war plants to whip up nagging enthusiasm. Said Vice Chairman Charles E. Wilson of the War Production Board: "It would be folly to let [early production feats] lull us into a sense of security. As long as war output is short of requirements, we have every cause for worry...
...While we really are a sincere, good, kind people, we hate to have our brains stirred. . . . We fear cooperation with people we don't know. . . . We lull our brains with our own money." The result: "We have made up our minds that though we love China we are not going to let love interfere with business, and so instead of a proposal of real alliance with China, we are going to send flowers in the form of relief . . . give [them] a piece of bread, when what they want is a good hard stone to heave at the enemy...
...Greeks began the island's long cycle of invasion. American Fortresses, medium bombers, fighter-bombers and night-flying British Wellingtons attacked from Tunisia (but not as heavily as some U.S. headlines screamed). Compared with the climactic air offensive on Pantelleria, the week, in fact, was one of lull and preparation...