Word: lull
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...enough to support counterbattery fire or to cope with Chinese "human sea" attacks. All the Pentagon witnesses conceded that in the past reserve stocks in Korea had fallen dangerously low. Under questioning by Harry Byrd, General Collins finally admitted that, so far as ammunition supplies were concerned, the lull following the July 1951 armistice talks in Korea had come as a desperately needed respite...
...change from Stalin to Malenkov & Co. might bring changes of tactics, a more pressing threat or a more cunning effort to lull the anti-Communist world to sleep. But the Kremlin and all that it stood for endured, essentially unchanged in its meaning and its menace...
...frustrate Red efforts to build up their reserves during the lull, the U.S. Fifth Air Force sent hundreds of Thunder-jets, Shooting Stars and Mustangs ranging over Communist camping grounds in western Korea. Night-raiding B-26 and B-29 bombers struck at Communist supply bases and transport columns rolling southward towards the front. The Reds retaliated with a propaganda attack: a Communist plane dropped leaflets on U.S. lines showing American civilians relaxing in Caribbean sunshine. Front-line loudspeakers played Christmas carols. Through the imperfect loudspeaker transmission, some listeners thought they heard the phrase, in imperfect English: "We want...
...collapse of world Communist power, establish a 'line' where we could find 'peace' and 'go home' . . . The Communists on any day, of course, may decide to cut their losses and give us an 'armistice' . . . but while [this] may mean a temporary lull in the dying, [itj will not mean peace, and we cannot go home . . . Lasting peace can come to Korea only with the collapse of armed Communist power in Asia...
Against Colgate, the varsity flashed some of the raw desire shown against Dartmouth, but its blinding early success served to lull...