Word: lull
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Communist troops were at Saigon's gate last April and shells were exploding everywhere, but a small band of doctors continued to treat patients at battered Gia Dinh Hospital. During a recent lull in Lebanon's civil war, a medical team entered Beirut and set up an emergency clinic in an isolated Moslem enclave which had been blockaded for nine months. In Guatemala last February, the ground was still trembling when a special task force of doctors arrived to care for victims of that country's disastrous earthquake...
...Soviets view détente-as permanent peaceful coexistence? As a way of maintaining East-West balance? As a tactic to lull the West into relaxing its vigilance? Foreign-policy experts have been debating this issue since the early 1970s, when Washington and Moscow proclaimed their intent to work for a reduction of world tensions. Although taking a hopeful view of the long-term trend of U.S.-Soviet relations, Henry Kissinger has recently warned Americans against expecting too much of détente, which Kremlin hard-liners have long described as a mere tactic. Last week Soviet Party Boss Leonid...
...first culprit on the list for failing to contribute "that something special" is the Harvard Band, whose between-period numbers were nice, but whose lull-in-the-action inputs were non-existent. It's against ECAC rules to play music while action in a game is going on, but how many small breaks were there when nothing was forthcoming from the musicians in the corner? Too many...
Troop Airlift. Some Western observers read the comparative lull in the fighting last week as a sign that the kind of debate going on in Moscow was also going on in Luanda. As one longtime British Angola watcher put it, Neto and his lieutenants may be realizing that "even if they win the next battle, it's going to be tough to win the war." The Luanda government, moreover, denied that it was solidly in the Soviet camp...
Scheduling provided the 'Cliffes with a lull through the Christmas vacation, season, but the women are defrosting and will return to action beginning tomorrow night when Carole Kleinfelder brings her hot-shot cagers to MIT. The 4-1 Radcliffe basketball team will be looking to continue their winning ways, but injuries may dull the start of the 1977-half of their season...