Word: lull
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...What are you doing now?" TIME Correspondent Cranston Jones asked the Tunisian villagers during a lull in the fighting last week...
...pound a gong and say that the U.N. had won. The Reds knew they were not in a debate. In the Communists' eyes, their spokesmen at Panmunjom were fighting a battle, just as truly as their troops in the field had been fighting up to the November lull. In their view, the negotiators were as thoroughly bound as battlefield soldiers to evade, confuse and deceive their enemy...
...skeleton had been assembled, his height determined, dental chart plotted. If the data obtained from this work checks with a name listed on a unit roster, another U.S. fighting man's name will be transferred from "missing in action" to "killed in action." In the fighting lull, the unsung men of Graves Registration were busy trying to bridge the gap between the 11,000 U.S. troops listed as missing, and the mere 3,000 names of persons on the lists handed over by the Reds...
...scale a cliff before reaching the rail line, but they blew a stretch of track into a mess of twisted steel. Purpose of the two attacks was not only to slow down the enemy's southward flow of war supplies, but to remind him that the lull in the Korean fighting was not by any means a total ceasefire. It was one more oddity of an odd war that after weeks of palaver over where a truce line should be, so much of last week's fighting should take place far beyond...
...next two years may be "the most critical in the history of our country," 15 members of the Business School faculty state in an article appearing in the January issue of the Harvard Business Review. The group warns the American people against "relaxing their guard" because of the lull in the Korean fighting...