Word: lull
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...immediately, the lull will continue, and protest will be the province of the few and stalwart. Immediately, there is a re-awakening to what the white man is about in the South, and a backsliding into old Southern habits. Who failed? The white man failed--failed to measure up to the conception of man with which the Movement began. These days Knight has about as much time for me as a poker player for a man who, somehow, persuaded him to play a hand as if pairs were high...
...screaming and exploding shells, an ambulance, driven by its frenzied conductor at full speed, presented to all of us the marvellous spectacle of a horse going rapidly on three legs. A hinder one had been shot off at the hock . . ." How You Are Envied. "Then there was a lull, and we knew that the rebel infantry was charging. And splendidly they did this work-the highest and severest test of the stuff that soldiers are made of. Hill's division . . . and Longstreet's came as the support, at the usual distance, with war cries and a savage insolence...
Birmingham belonged to outsiders last week. They kept the peace-a surly, smoldering lull that fooled no one. State policemen, who had rushed into town to club down rioting Negroes at dawn on Mother's Day, still patrolled the streets, armed with carbines, pistols and shotguns. At any sign of unrest, they stomped about shouting threats, shoving Negroes into doorways and menacingly snapping the safety catches off their weapons. They were 700 strong, ordered into town by Governor George C. Wallace, a militant segregationist who seemed to be spoiling for a fight...
Meanwhile in Laos itself, a lull had settled over the battlefield...
...banks and businesses belong to foreigners, and the hosts suffer from both the weakness of envy and the need for cash. Last month Burma's government nationalized 14 foreign banks, and this month Nyasaland seized a German-controlled brewery on the pretext that its beer was designed to lull natives out of any fight for independence. Last week in Manhattan, even while seeking U.S. aid, Brazil's Finance Minister San Thiago Dantas reaffirmed his country's intention to nationalize all foreign utilities. The U.S. State Department accepts the likelihood that before long almost all Latin American nations...