Word: lull
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Some weeks ago, during the very particular and graceful lull of an English Sunday afternoon, two American travelers stopped by a pub in the village of Blandford, Dorset. The air was thick with Player's smoke and jollity, the sound of gentle joking, the slide and click of coins across the worn wood of the bar, and the easygoing strains of the new Eagles album...
...support himself, during the lull of tap dancing's popularity, Collins says he left the stage and opened a garage. For over a decade he cleaned engines, varnished hoods, did body work--and refused to look at a variety show. "I was afraid if I saw people dancing I'd go back into show biz even though there was no money for tap dancers. As I'm a realistic person I felt I had to stick with the steady income of my garage," he explains...
Reagan, despite a recent lull in his own campaign efforts, is still the favorite of his party, according to the Yankelovich survey. Twenty-eight percent of Republicans said they preferred Reagan as the G.O.P. nominee, while 24% said they would make former President Gerald Ford their first choice, even though Ford has said he will not actively seek the nomination. Senate Minority Leader Howard-Baker ranked third in the preference poll with 14%, while former Democratic Texas Governor (and former Treasury Secretary) John Connally placed fourth with 10% of those questioned. One understandable handicap for some of the likely Republican...
...final third, the Bulldogs pulled out of their lull and opened up a commanding lead, cruising home with the open-water victory...
...used for decades to fight mental illness, scientists have not really understood how they worked. Now all that is changing. A miraculous pharmacopoeia is being explored to deal with every kind of ailment in the mind and body. Not too far off may be tailor-made drugs that will lull insomniacs into peaceful sleep, dull the throbbing of pain, organize a schizophrenic's thoughts and perhaps even simulate the pleasures...