Word: lull
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...domestic wars have simmered down as well. For three years, the Christmas holidays at South Boston High School had merely meant a lull in the racial conflict over busing. This year school officials have unplugged the airport metal detectors once used to screen students for weapons, the police have been removed from the halls, and Southie students are at peace. Said one kid: "After a while, you get to know them. You just get along." In Chicago, one of the nation's most stubbornly segregated cities, a new busing program drew angry words this fall but no violent resistance...
...script with a series of stagy and unconvincing plot incidents: a suicide, a gang rumble, a gang bang. By the time Tony takes a soul-searching all-night subway ride to arrive at the story's bogus happy ending, the movie has thrown away its subject to lull us with sentimental bromides about Finding Oneself. We might as well be at Roseland...
...That will about match what board members and other economists consider to have been the basic, or underlying, rate throughout 1977-or 1976 for that matter. The officially reported rate in recent months has been lower-3.7% in October-but that was an illusory result of a temporary lull in food prices. The respite is now ending; in November wholesale prices, which often foreshadow what will happen to living costs, rose at an annual rate...
...wonderment and euphoria in Israel was diluted only by doubts about Sadat's true intentions. Until the Egyptian advance team arrived, some Israelis wondered whether the visit would actually take place: perhaps it was all a ruse to lull Israel into complacency. Among the skeptics was the army's chief of staff, Lieut. General Mordechai Gur, who defied a gag order from Defense Minister Ezer Weizman and gave an interview to the Hebrew daily Yedioth Aharonoth, in which he offered a "worst case" scenario. Gur suggested that Sadat was preparing to launch a surprise attack on Israeli-occupied Sinai, similar...
...commonplace to note that New York, once one of the most intensely political towns in the country, is now in the midst of a perverse political lull. Gone are the flashy pretty-boys like John Lindsay, the debonair playboys like Jimmy Walker, the fiery sidewalk-thumpers like Fiorello LaGuardia and the mediocre but endearing swindlers like Bill O'Dwyer. The city that could once churn out Roosevelts and Wagners now contents itself with failed accountants like Abe Beame, who chased political shadows in the dark of a summer blackout. Mediocrity on an unprecedented scale. Yet even those ciphers seem awesome...