Word: lull
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...swarthy, earnest 21-year-old Glen T. Tigner could see for miles out over the Virginia countryside. Traffic was light. A war surplus P-38, owned by the Bolivian government, took off for a practice flight at 11:37. It snarled off out of sight. Then there was a lull before Eastern Air Lines flight 537, a four-engine DC-4 inbound from New York, asked for landing instructions...
Sure Ground. It was a lull in the political East-West conflict which had focused so much attention on the West's economic troubles, like sharp reefs exposed in an ebb tide. Yet nobody thought it safe to assume that Moscow would make no more bids for power in Europe. With Bevin, Schuman and Acheson in Washington, the representatives of nine other Atlantic Pact nations* joined them to blueprint Western defense machinery. In this field, the statesmen were on sure ground; a scheduled three-hour meeting lasted only one hour...
Then, in a lull after three hours of wild shooting, the chief spotted movement in the narrow space between the house and the next-door apartment-Craig was out and trying to get away. The chief opened fire and Craig, huddled in the deep shadows with a pistol in either hand, began shooting back. Two detectives stepped in, Tommy guns hammering, and Craig went down-shooting even as his body twitched under the blows of bullets. The big fight, in which five policemen, one child and one woman bystander had been wounded, was over...
...George F. Lull, the A.M.A.'s general manager, arrived to offer a posy: for the first time in its 102 years, the A.M.A. was going to seat a Negro, Harlem's Dr. Peter M. Murray, in its House of Delegates. But Dr. Lull soon revealed the political wiring in his bouquet...
Behind the scenes, Dr. Lull and his aides lobbied to swing the N.M.A. into line with the A.M.A. in opposition to socialized medicine. But they could not budge a rock-ribbed Southern bloc in the N.M.A., which saw a chance to strike a blow for equality. Outgoing President C. Austin Whittier of San Antonio threw out the challenge: "I recommend that we take a firm stand in support of President Truman's health program . . . and make available necessary funds for effective support." That was a bargaining position...