Word: lull
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Both the manner and the matter of Frost have made him the target of intense criticism?and plain envy ?among British journalists, some of whom complain that he turned television interviews into a form of show biz. Some years ago, during a brief lull in Frost's career, acerb Journalist Malcolm Muggeridge predicted that Frost would sink without a trace. Instead, harrumphed The Mug later, "he rose without a trace...
...1930s a new, cheaper, way of making records was developed and the Decca record company sold 78s for 35 cents a piece. Record sales started a climb that, except for a lull in the Second World War, has not stopped yet. A great American tradition started with The Lucky Strike Hit Parade--a national radio show that played the recordings tallying as the nation's biggest hits. The Top 40 was born. The broadcast came on at a time when it was not unusual for 20 million people to listen to a single radio show...
...University's latest move to break the morale deadlock and move on to the pressing economic issues is an example of this seeming insensitivity to the union's position. In the lull since the contract talks recessed late last month, University negotiators have, at the instruction of the federal mediator handling the negotiations, staged a search for a third party to help resolve the reorganization problems. Yet from the start University and union officials have apparently held different views of the type of intermediary needed to solve the problem. While Henry Wise '18, attorney for the Police Association, has called...
...Czechoslovakia. After a brief lull the official Czechoslovak press resumed its ferocious attacks on the nearly 500 signers of Charter 77, a manifesto calling for compliance with the Helsinki human rights accord. The charter had provoked the alarm and fury of the regime because its adherents include the country's foremost writers and intellectuals, plus ousted leaders of the liberal regime of Alexander Dubcek. Last week the charter was endorsed by Dubcek himself, who has been working for the forestry office in Bratislava since he was deposed by the Russian invaders...
...Elis' Carnell Cooper notched it at 35 apiece with 13:16 left to play and thereafter the cagers' offense began to fizzle. After a three-minute scoring lull with both squads tied at 39, Yale piled up a 48-41 lead. During the cold spell, the hoopsters went eight minutes without a field goal before Irion dropped a whirling hook from the baseline...