Word: lull
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Claes Rooth: "If there ever was a pseudo topic, it's the Bermuda triangle." Rooth attributes many of the disappearances to violent weather occurring suddenly over the warm water in the triangle. "It is like being hit by a tornado," he says. "Nice weather conditions in the area lull you into a sense of false security." Other experts point out that the swift current of the Gulf Stream quickly carries debris far from an accident site; "lost without a trace" thus becomes easily understandable...
...lots of time for talking at the airport, and at a lull in the conversation one of our hosts said, the way you might ask a stranger how did he like President Ford, "In your opinion, what is the main motive force in history?" My impression was that it served the same function as a question about Ford might--to see if we were on the same side, as it were. The only other time someone seemed to be asking a question for that reason was when a schoolteacher asked about the Vietnam war: I guess students tend...
...that Duke and Kate pretty well directed themselves. More than once, Wayne stormed at Millar for overshooting scenes. "Goddammit," Duke boomed, "we can say these lines just so many times before they stop making sense." When the flustered director tried to proceed, there was a momentary lull and confusion. "Hey," Wayne shouted, "Mister Director, you're supposed to say 'action,' aren...
...slightly negative or flat in the first half. There should be an upturn toward the end of the year created by increases in consumer spending and somewhat improved conditions in housing. Nevertheless, 1975 will probably mark the second consecutive year of a decline in output, a lull unmatched in a generation...
...guardians of the Oval Office in Richard Nixon's law-and-order Administration. Now they sat on the uncomfortable side of the law as defendants in a Washington federal courtroom, separated by a vacant chair-and a frosty silence. For 45 awkward, painful minutes, during a courtroom lull in the jury selection process, John Ehrlichman, baggy-eyed and subdued, bent purposefully over a yellow legal pad. The normally dour H.R. Haldeman, his crew cut turned sleekly long, glanced tentatively at his onetime friend, but got no encouragement. Before stepping out to smoke his pipe, a pale, drawn, considerably older...