Word: lull
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Seas of Flame. After a few days' lull, the Israelis struck back. Answering an artillery barrage against two border kibbutzim, Israeli guns opened up along a 60-mile front extending from Jericho to the Sea of Galilee. Massed in advance for the attack, howitzers, heavy mortars and tanks pounded Jordanian positions with merciless accuracy. The Arabs brought up reinforcements and pounded back, turning great patches of Israeli farm land into rolling seas of flame. Then the Israelis called out their air force. For nearly seven hours, squadrons of jet fighter-bombers dumped rockets, phosphorus bombs and napalm...
...respite of truce to position themselves to come out fighting hard. This time the Communists did not even wait for the truce to expire. More than 170 truce violations-and a major Viet Cong attack two hours before the truce ended-made the New Year's lull the bloodiest of the Viet Nam war's eight ceasefires. Despite their initiative, the Communists lost most of the blood...
Harvard started its dramatic thirdperiod bombardment in quiet enough fashion. The Crimson forward lines were in the process of changing--generally symbolic of a lull in play--when sophomore defenseman Chris Gurry crossed the blue line and flicked a hard wrist shot goalward. The puck deflected off Terrier defenseman Billy Hinch past goalie Jim McCann...
...association strongly feels that any reduction in effort is an insult to 10,000 dead. Korea showed that any stalemate or bombing lull will result in a rapid Communist buildup. This nation has never walked away from world responsibility, and to do so now because of the political aims of a few would be a catastrophe unparalleled in our history...
Once, while he and a sergeant major waited for a lull in the firing, Greenway experienced what he says was a moment of total recall. "There I was, covered with mud, sweaty, nose pressed into the dirt, and I suddenly remembered that almost exactly a year ago to the day I was sitting in our plush Boston bureau trying to get a call through to Harvard's President Pusey for a story about the divinity school. I thought: 'If I walked into President Pusey's office right now, he would call the police...