Word: lull
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Britain as a whole was swept up in a wave of shock and recrimination. In the House of Commons, Home Secretary William Whitelaw reported on a personal visit to Brixton, conducted during a lull in the rioting, and announced that a respected and nonpartisan peer, former Jurist Lord Scarman, would investigate the causes of the violence. Firebrand M.P. Enoch Powell, a Tory turned Ulster Unionist and a longtime opponent of nonwhite immigration to Britain, warned that "you have seen nothing yet." Five M.P.s demanded "a vigorous policy" of subsidized repatriation of nonwhite immigrants. The ruckus spread as far away...
...Corporation's recent rumblings of retreat--combined with its willingness to abstain on South-Africa-related shareholder resolutions because of petty qualms about language and feasibility--reflect a larger, even more disturbing trend. Apparently, the Corporation is attempting to seize the opportunity afforded by a lull in student activism to withdraw the sole concessions it made under fire in 1978, when more than 3000 students took to the streets to demand divestiture...
...fuss is apparently going to last forever. Fortunately, it does sometimes fizzle down to a pleasantly inaudible buzz. In fact, the country has enjoyed just such a lull in the years since Southern politicians stopped exhuming John Calhoun's interposition doctrine to resist desegregation. But now the lull is over. The oldest free-floating political issue in U.S. history is flaring up again, fueled by accumulated resentment at that familiar, all-purpose ogre: the huge, cumbersome, inefficient, ever busy Federal Government...
...Harvard wrestling's Johnny Lee. The veteran skipper has been around too long to let early-season victories lull him into a false sense of security...
...likelihood, events will not force Carter to make good on that pledge in the near future. That should not lull Americans into ignoring the meaning of this latest application of the "Carter doctrine." It means that, should this week's war or future tumults threaten the oil pipeline from the Persian Gulf, Carter will send in the Navy, the Air Force and--if necessary--the Army. It means that, even though world oil supplies will become inadequate within two or three decades with the best possible supply situation, Carter believes it is worth fighting today to preserve this phantom...