Word: lull
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...special section, "The Cooling of America," provides an excellent insight into the mood and thinking of today. It takes a special talent to look at present-day happenings and give such objective reasoning and analysis. Let us hope that this present feeling is the lull before something good and not just a pause before something...
Relaxing in the lull before the storm, Bok said the period of speculation about his candidacy "hasn't been too bad, partly because people around the Law School, my colleagues, really have been exceedingly good-not poking fun or asking questions...
...action brings to 74 the number of indictments since October when the lull in Selective Service indictments ended...
...initial cease-fire between Israel and Egypt had hardly taken effect last August before both sides were using the lull to prepare for war. Israel's Bar-Lev Line, along the Suez Canal's east bank, was extended and impressively hardened. Across the canal, the late Gamal Abdel Nasser rushed so many Soviet-built missiles forward that, as a Western diplomat in Cairo cracked last week, "even if the Russians wanted to move more in, they probably couldn't find a place to put them...
...uncle Sid Lotenberg-married to my grandmother's youngest sister-is red faced and wild. As my grandmother's friends arrive, he tells each one she is lovelier than the one before. They love it. During a lull, he leans his head my way and says, "I'm drunk as a coon...