Word: lull
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Although there is no August lull for the candidates, there is one for the voter. While the nominees and their strategists are busily planning ways & means of getting the voter's attention and his vote, he can inspect the bare bones of the presidential campaign, the chief advantages that each party and its candidate have before the heavy speechmaking...
...Babble. All the ladies were forced to talk into a dismaying babble from the delegates. Minnesota's handsome, fair Mrs. Eugenie Anderson, U.S. Ambassador to Denmark, did achieve one moment of triumph. During a slight lull she cried that the Democrats had to go on demonstrating that basic policies were "made by our civilians . . . and . . . not ... by generals -in or out of uniform!" The crowd gave her a rousing hand...
Broken only by occasional small actions which altered the battle line hardly at all, the lull in the fighting has continued up to this week. The enemy, so shattered and bloody last July, had the upper hand now, and he kept it. There was no pressure on him except from the air, which he countered with his jets and hard-hitting anti-aircraft defenses. The U.N. had no policy except to try beating down the Red negotiators "with verbal maneuvers and high-flown rhetoric-which had no more effect than so much birdshot against a tank...
...went unchallenged-such as that the U.S. is training Chiang Kaishek's troops in Korea itself. Some Britons actually seemed to believe that a truce had been in operation in Korea until the U.S. bombers dropped their payloads last week, and seemed shocked when Acheson told them the "lull" had cost the U.N. 30,000 casualties...
London's Sunday Observer was set to add its voice to the critical clamor until the cold facts sunk in. Instead, the Observer confessed: "Everything . . . turns on the question; Was there, prior to the Yalu raids, a lull, a tacit cease-fire or near-cease-fire in Korea?" The Observer had done a little quick homework and was startled by its findings: "The plain fact-continuous and hence unreported-is that there has been a long-drawn battle which has been in progress almost since the start of the armistice talks." In this light, the Observer was alarmed...