Word: lull
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ensuing lull, ARVN troopers scavenged sandbags from a bunker that had been blown apart by an enemy mortar round. Some soldiers dug their fox holes deeper while others stared impassively at the immobile grass. Over campfires fueled by empty ammunition boxes hung pots of homemade noodle-and-vegetable soup...
...these threats were not ominous enough, there remained a wild card in Britain's gamble for peace: the I.R.A. A relative lull in its bombing campaign ended violently last week when a gelignite-loaded van exploded in the town of Limavady, demolishing the police station and several other buildings and killing two men who were driving by at the time...
...standstill. One bored briefer at U.S. military headquarters in Viet Nam complains that the daily press release has been reduced practically to a single sentence: "Yesterday, U.S. aircraft flew B-52 missions in the Republic of Viet Nam during the 24-hour period ending at noon today." The lull may mean that the war is effectively over, or it may be a kind of caesura in the apparently endless alternation of dry-season offensives and rainy-season resupply. In Saigon now, a vital concern is whether the South Vietnamese economy can be made less dependent on U.S. aid; early this...
...lull followed as the conference waited for the revised resolution on George Jackson. Suddenly a frail woman rushed the mike and branded the discussion of the Jackson statement "tasteless and obscene." "A man has been killed," she screamed. "Do we think that our sentiments are so goddamned important?" Staggering in shock, the clergy and laymen retreated into sorrowful prayer. One of the few blacks in the room--a woman--began softly: "We Shall Overcome...
Whenever The Dice Man lapses into missionary zealotry, prepare for rampant naiveté. Anarchy is not the joyous freedom that Rhinehart takes it to be, nor does the cure for civilization's discontents lie in an idolatry. However, the book could be a boon to games-minded hostesses. During a lull at the next party, try serving dice in the martinis...