Word: lull
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...headquarters and an important Katanga army building a few hundred yards away. For hours the missionaries ducked, as blast after blast struck their walls and plowed up the garden outside. Then they realized that badly aimed bazooka shells from the U.N. compound itself were doing the damage; during a lull in the firing, they hastily evacuated the buildings...
...This program would lull you into a false sense of security...
...make it as a prodigy-and he made it big. The more uninhibited critics, recalls Ricci. "called me the greatest violinist playing, which meant that I have had to fight Ricci ever since." Now 41, Ricci is still fighting Ricci. He seems to be doing nicely. During a lull in his frenzied concert career, he turned up in a Manhattan recording studio last week to cut two albums (for Decca). The fiddling was the kind that prodigious nine-year-olds can only envy...
...Internee in Your Spare Time Without Previous Training. Though heard in Britain, the series was beamed to the U.S., which was wavering on the edge of war. Apparently, Hitler's propagandists believed Plum's breezy account of his misadventures as British Civilian Prisoner 796 would lull U.S. hostility by picturing the Nazis as good-natured nitwits in the inane, innocuous image of Cyril (Barmy) Fotheringay-Phipps or G. D'Arcy (Stilton) Cheesewright...
...weeks the Red guerrillas, known as the Viet Cong, had steered clear of large-scale action, choosing instead to dart out in small bands on minor missions of sabotage and murder. U.S. military advisers, rushed to South Viet Nam after the debacle in Laos, used the lull to train government troops in special new mobile tactics. Dozens of U.S. "Special Forces" operatives joined army units to demonstrate night operations, sneak attacks, better use of landing craft in the canals of the Mekong delta. Fortnight ago, reports filtered in that big Communist groups were moving south from Cambodia toward the marshes...