Word: lull
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lull clouds gathered. War machines were cranking up. Great events would come, must come, cataclysm on cataclysm. The nation's armies and armaments grew like thunderheads; some day soon they must burst with a great explosive flash...
Perhaps Berlin and Tokyo, hoping to lull Australia and the U.S., had planted the signs that the Japs were fattening and slowing. If so, they failed to lull General Douglas MacArthur...
...lull in fighting may have meant that porcine General Tomoyuki Yamashita was readying what he hopes will be the final offensive against Bataan's defenders. In any event, the front MacArthur left was quieter than the one he went...
...forts from concealed positions across the Bay, was usually fired only in the morning when, with the sun directly behind it, gun flashes were hard to detect. Aerial superiority enabled Japanese dive-bombers to return again & again over U.S. positions, in spite of withering anti-aircraft fire. In the lull that followed the latest unsuccessful thrust against MacArthur, Japanese troops took uncontested possession of Masbate Island, in the middle archipelago south of Luzon, which has an excellent airfield less than 300 miles from Bataan...
...weekend lull was, perhaps, the last...