Word: lull
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Warnings. Then there are the guerrillas. Although there has been a lull in terrorism, most observers feel that the leftist Peronists and the out-and-out guerrillas have only been taking stock. Both the Marxist People's Revolutionary Army (E.R.P.) and the Montoneros, left-wing Peronist guerrillas, have issued warnings of new revolutionary activity. Wrote Domingo Menna, a high E.R.P. officer, "We are at the beginning of a revolutionary situation...
...Angels on their Harley-Davidsons turned in convincing performances as Visigoths at the gates of suburbia. Easy Rider could not keep off the grass, and Evel Knievel, that star spangled Icarus of the carnival circuit, gives young minibike owners potentially lethal delusions of grandeur. But now, during the lull in the great gas panic of '74, comes a 46-year-old Minnesotan and writer of computer manuals, who makes the motorcycle not only respectable but also a focus of mental and spiritual health...
...Balance a cinematic flow is call upon the considerable talents of Cinematographer David Watkin. Having made that excellent choice, Richardson seems to have disappeared. Watkin uses a kind of embellished natural lighting. His uncluttered compositions can shock the eye with a shaft of light from a table lamp or lull it with a suggestion of the dark distances between night and morning. His craftsmanlike photography, at least, makes the film worth looking...
Skinner then added three rapid buckets to center John Murphy's 20-footer on the baseline to push the Minutemen in front, 43-42. Harvard did not snap out of its defensive lull until it gave UMass a seven-point lead and lost point-man Griffin on fouls, with 12:15 remaining on the clock...
...intelligence expert: "The Israelis are right there, and they should know. This time they did not read the signals right." By last week an Israeli Foreign Ministry official privately admitted that, "what was coming out of Cairo was a smokescreen. What Sadat was trying to do was obvious-lull us into a security that was not there." But Israel also helped lull itself into a sense of false security. Since the devastating victory over Egypt, Syria and Jordan in the Six-Day War, Israel's political and military leaders have evinced a confidence that may have become self-deluding...