Word: lull
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...lives of the 1,200 U.S. Marines dug in around Beirut International Airport. But the ground combat and the artillery fire persisted as the fledgling Lebanese Army fought Syrian-backed Druze forces for control of the strategic hill town of Suq al Gharb. The Marines, after savoring a brief lull in artillery fire directed at the airport, were forced back into their bunkers when mortar rounds began falling near them. And as they hunkered down, a political battle erupted in Washington between Congress and the President over the thorny issue of who has final authority to keep U.S. forces deployed...
...TIME board, though, feared the economy's vigor could lull Congress and the White House into ignoring a critical problem that will eventually threaten the recovery: the burgeoning federal budget deficit, which this year is expected to reach a record $209 billion. Created by a combination of large tax cuts and heavy Government spending, the deficit has given a powerful boost to consumers and helped lift the economy out of recession...
...tour, Weinberger met with Salvadoran Defense Minister Carlos Eugenic Vides Casanova, whose U.S.-trained troops had not seen much fighting lately. They soon did. At roughly the same time as Weinberger's visit, a force of between 500 to 600 leftist insurgents suddenly ended a two-month lull in the country's civil war by attacking the center of San Miguel, El Salvador's third largest city. After killing at least 20 members of the local garrison and wounding more than 100 in a seven-hour siege, the rebels began to withdraw as dawn approached. The significance...
...hours after the ambush the contras struck again, twelve miles away, dynamiting a bridge. Although the structure was said to be of limited strategic importance, its destruction was a symbolic warning that contras were living and working in the area. Taken together, the two assaults indicated that the relative lull that had followed the contras' offensive last spring was over. In a feat of good timing, Junta Coordinator Daniel Ortega Saavedra appeared before parliament last week to propose a military draft that would make all men between 17 and 25 eligible for two full years of active service, followed...
Even some veteran Washington reporters protested that the story was being vastly overplayed. They blamed the yearning of their colleagues for excitement during a summertime news lull and one of the less attractive residuals of Watergate afflicting too much of the press: the fear of underplaying-and being beaten on-a scandal. The decisiveness of Reagan's election victory made the possession of a debate crib sheet seem irrelevant to the outcome. Said House Speaker Tip O'Neill about Carter: "We had an extremely unpopular candidate who would have lost, debate or no debate, briefing book...