Word: lull
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After an exam period lull, John A. Marlin '62 said last night that he will press forward this summer with his suit against the Harvard Student Agencies over rights to "Let's Go: A Student Guide to Europe...
What killed home shelters was the lull in the cold war plus the Kennedy Administration's decision to stress large-scale, community shelters over backyard bunkers. Says Ray Toland Sr., a Los Angeles shelter maker who failed: "It's been a real loused-up deal. All this blah-blah-blah about a $30 shelter or a $300 shelter, and about private and community shelters. People got so confused they didn't know what was right-and they still don't." In Oklahoma City, the number of inquiries about shelters received monthly by one company has dropped...
...after weeks of talk and weeks of lull, there was, at last, also a week of action-most of it on the part...
...important, a thriving, cooperating Europe dramatically belies the Marxist belief that capitalist nations will destroy one another and leave their workers in rags as Communism sweeps over the world. Actually, industrial production in the Common Market's six nations is up 37% in five years; after a brief lull, orders are pouring into steel factories and other heavy industries. Most of Western Europe's workers enjoy a standard of living far higher than that of any Communist country...
...correspondent for New York's venerable Chase Manhattan Bank, and opened branches in Syria, Iraq, Qatar and Jordan. In 1958, when near civil war halted Lebanese banking for more than three months and most of his competitors sat brooding over their ill fortune, Bedas took advantage of the lull to set up a branch in London and an affiliate bank in Geneva...