Word: lull
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Richard Nixon, the lull in the Watergate tempest is over. This week Senator Sam Ervin's committee reopens its public hearings, and by next week the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington will rule on whether the President must surrender his secret Watergate tapes to a federal grand jury. In addition, more indictments are expected shortly in connection with both the Watergate break-in and the burglary at the office of the psychiatrist of Pentagon Papers Defendant Daniel Ellsberg. Said one presidential adviser: "It's like sitting here waiting for 24,000 volts. You know...
...Lull. The shooting did not noticeably subside until the government ordered rocket attacks by air on a Palestinian camp near the airport shortly before sunset on Thursday. Two Hunter jet fighter-bombers of the Lebanese air force made 14 low-level sweeps over the camp. It was the first time that Arab planes had bombed a Palestinian refugee camp. President Franjieh doubtless felt that the end justified his means. As smoke from the rockets rose over the camp, the ground fighting abruptly died down, not only in the camp area but, seemingly by coincidence, elsewhere as well. Soon after, another...
...Washington Correspondent Lawrence Malkin, a veteran economic reporter who interviewed Shultz for the cover story, and was working in London in 1967, the scenario was familiar: "The pattern is always the same: the frenzy on the exchange markets, the weekend lull while international officials work out their deals, then the aftermath of uncertainty." That aftermath is particularly significant to Malkin, who is being transferred to London. Says he: "I am now watching the money markets with a deeply personal interest...
...During a lull, we ducked inside a shattered shop to catch our breath. Across the street, three Vietnamese marines emerged from an alley and cuffed a man in Vietnamese army green across the street into our shop. The marines were angry. They yelled at the prisoner, pushed him around and threatened him with their rifles. The man was frightened but calm; he obviously thought the Ranger patch on his sleeve assured his safety. Just then a battered civilian car clanked up, and a sweating Vietnamese marine lieutenant jumped out. The marines chattered excitedly. The lieutenant listened impassively. The prisoner waited...
...worry. The book is still lull of gems. For those who need definitions of Yiddishisms that have crept into everyday use, Rosten provides examples, many with a fond patina of age: chutzpa is a case of "a man who, having killed his mother and father, asks the court for mercy because he is an orphan, poor schlemiel is a man who "falls on his back and breaks his nose." Some lines are cosmic as well as comic: "The rich have heirs, not children." "Good men need no recommendation and bad men it wouldn't help...