Word: lull
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...violence in Beirut had tapered off to occasional skirmishing and sniping. It was heavy rains, however, rather than a spirit of conciliation that had dampened the fighting ardor of gunmen, who roamed the streets carrying an umbrella in one hand and a rifle in the other. The lull coincided with end-of-the-month anticipation of paychecks, a time when many street fighters have a personal interest in maintaining at least enough order for banks to reopen...
Clean-up efforts began, but schools and most banks did not reopen, and most civil servants ignored Premier Karami's order to return to work. One suspicion was that the lull was only a "paycheck truce" during which the soldiers of the private militias involved would collect back salaries from local political bosses or other employers, get food for their families and rebuild their own supply of arms and ammunition...
...about its leaders and dissatisfaction with its systems. Political rhetoric may have been inflated enough at times to be inflammatory. Certainly, any such excesses need to be curbed. But Gerald Ford in particular has clearly lowered the level of intensity in his public speeches; if anything, he threatens to lull his listeners to sleep rather than incite them to hostility...
...murder are quite ordinary, and, in spite of Gifford and O'Rourke's exertions, its solution is quite simple. The whodunit is so peripheral to the body of the novel, in fact, that the first real clues do not surface until three months after the killing and a sizeable lull in the narrative, and Gifford continues his account for a good 30 pages after the guilty verdict...
...delegation from Athens and Glafkos Clerides, the Greek Cypriot leader, received the plan coolly and asked for a short recess to talk it over with their governments. But the American State Department was more enthusiastic and didn't hesitate to show it during the lull. A department spokesman, Robert Anderson, insisted on the fairness of the Turkish position at a news briefing and seemed to be bolstering Ankara's stance with the timing of his comment, as well. A day later, on August 14, the Turkish army fanned over the island until its troops had hemmed in at least...