Word: lull
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...program for the defense of academic freedom now seems clearer than at any time in the recent past. No longer need attention focus so exclusively on court cases, although cases still in progress must be fought vigorously and new victims defended. But now, while there is a lull, for whatever reason, in the attack on academic freedom, major attention should be turned to securing the repeal and withdrawal of restrictive statutes and regulations, the cloak of due process under which the attackers of academic freedom operate. The best way to achieve this would seem to be for liberals to develop...
...editors of i.e. successfully broke the exam-period lull last Tuesday by publishing their personal critique of intellectual life at Harvard. Within 24 hours, the editors claim, over 1,000 copies of the Cambridge Review's sixth issue were grabbed off the newstands...
...party to their act, e.g., enforced spectator participation in the mass trials. By the end of 1951 and the beginning of 1952 the slaughter had reached such a pitch that the whole of China (as the Communists intended) was shaken to its roots with terror. There was a lull in the next two years, but last year the execution rate perceptibly increased again. The result has been a widespread recognition of the futility of resisting. Lo's liquidation campaign has been a ringing success...
...Morocco, "Black Crescent" terrorists went into action after a three-month lull, tossing bombs that injured 18 in Rabat, Marrakech and Casablanca...
...natural conclusion: Father Huddleston was being recalled because his superiors thought he had gone too far in his opposition to Baal. After the Archbishop of Canterbury visited South Africa last spring and spoke out against too rapid desegregation, Father Huddleston condemned his view as "a false impression . . . that will lull Christians into apathy." Last .week Huddleston's superiors denied that he was being transferred under pressure. Father Huddleston merely said: "I am very sad, but in a religious community, one is under a vow of obedience...