Word: lull
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What did the longest lull on record mean...
...muddleheaded Government clerk who telephoned him to ask what should be done with a carload of shingles, he replied: "Print the Lord's Prayer on every one of them." He answers his own telephone with a gruff "MacMillan speaking." Once at a formal dinner there was a hushed lull while the diners waited for someone to say grace. The silence was broken by his boom: "MacMillan speaking...
...will have to settle down to the tougher task of building ships and shipyards faster than it has ever built them before. With every yard already crowded, U. S. shipbuilders are talking about their boom. Soon they will look back to March of 1941 as a period of lull...
...Paris gaily played Oh, Johnny, Oh Johnny, How You Can Love! At the tables handsome flying Johnnies, naval Jacks in full dress, guardsmen, territorials, and just plain civics sat making conversational love. The service men were making the most of leave; the civilians were making the most of the lull in bombings of London...
While the toll at sea went up, the lull on land continued. Last week casualty figures were released which showed that the lull was also a definite downward curve. In January, 1,502 Britons had been killed by bombs* ; in December, 3,793; in November, 4,588; in October, 6,334; in September, 6,954. But the curve of losses at sea-of supplies to keep millions alive-looked as if it were on the way up after its wintry low. And in any case, the casualty lull was only relative. Said the magazine Flight: "The Germans have brought...