Word: lull
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Vigorous" foreign policy; State Department talk about sending warships to England to rescue a handful of Americans who have had fifteen months in which to get out--these are but straws in the wind. The big push for intervention is yet to come. And in this temporary lull the Student Union is hollering for an organized expression of peace sentiment. Using the apt slogan, "No Wilson Promises," it is seeking to dramatize the tragic parables between...
...high speed, he whirls through a quiz that in cludes such inquiries as: "What's your name, what do you do, are you in love, what is love, are you a dreamer, how do you stand on the three-way stretch-thank you, brother. There's a lull in the joint. Come here, dear...
...present defenses are inadequate and, what is worse, the enemy knows it. Why should he give us time to prepare? His technique is to lull his victims into a false security and then to strike swiftly and remorselessly...
...Luftwaffe used the week's lull to test Britain's night defenses. A few experienced German pilots were sent over nocturnally, and one night shortly before dawn they gave London's fashionable West End its first taste and sound of high explosive. Actually hit were tenements, shops and an empty cinema in a slum district. The slumsters laughed because, while none of them was killed, a local undertaker's emporium was demolished...
...present condition of helplessness. Of late practically all his public utterances have been timed and delivered to give aid and comfort to potential enemies of this country. . . . Whether he realizes it or not, he is serving Nazi interests well in his endeavors to prevent preparedness and to lull an awakening America to sleep...