Word: lull
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...present there is an ominous lull, heavy with mystery and threats. No doubt Hitler is preparing now blows. The gigantic offensive launched on May 10th was intended to be the final victory which it was not. It was a severe blow. France does not deny it. It was also a severe blow to them. You can read between the lines of their communiques. The German radio must explain to the people the necessity for further sacrifices. Their losses have been tremendous, German women are forbidden to wear mourning; it would be bad for the morale...
This is no proposal to wait for a lull in the fighting. If one side is losing, it might welcome a chance to make peace now rather than suffer defeat. If one side is winning, it might be influenced by proof that there are those who will consider its claims in an atmosphere far removed from the frenzy and hatred of the warring nations' capitals. Both sides should see that the saving of suffering, poverty, and death by stopping the war now will make it easier to work out their problems. And active cooperation between the United States, the Catholic...
...shops of Paris and New York are sensationally different. In America surroundings are designed to soothe and glide and lull you into easy buying. Every size, every shade, every age catered for-but God help you if you should want your own ideas carried out. Here a true creation must be born with labour and pains ... to secure an impudent little lid either from the big popular store or the "Grande Modiste" needs a desperate tussle in a tropically-heated battle-room, heavy with a smell of stale scent and hot hard work . . . screaming like a jay amongst jays . . . still...
...there may be flaws to iron out. But in these few hours the best entertainment possible will be presented, and it is on the quality of its output that the success of the Network depends. Tonight at 7 o'clock you can fill in that after-dinner lull by tuning in at 800 kilocycles on your dial...
13th Day. But the lull had been like the momentary quiet of a thunderstorm before a terrific crash. The worst began on the 13th day of fighting. Supported by heavy artillery and airplanes that bombarded the Finnish lines day and night, the Russians threw fresh troops and tanks against the vital Summa sector, where the villages of Summa and Kamara guarded the road and railroad to Viipuri (see map}. Simultaneously they attacked in the middle of the isthmus, trying to force the defiles between the chain of isthmus lakes and encircle Lake Muolaa. This action, if successful, would flank...