Word: lull
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...surprise, for a change, was that there was no big surprise. Last week's primaries in Wisconsin, Kansas and Louisiana wound up the first phase of the 1980 campaign and began a two-week lull during which some candidates actually snatched a few days' rest before plunging on to the next contest in Pennsylvania on April 22. The result: Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan solidified the huge leads they have been building throughout a campaign season marked by enough twists and abrupt reversals to make "volatility" the political buzz word...
...date for a leadership convention in March, but rather than cobble together a hurried convention to choose a new leader, the party caucus and national executive decided that they would be better off drafting Trudeau. Some viewed his decision to quit the leadership as only a feint designed to lull the Tories into a false sense of security. But one friend insists that "he very genuinely was out, and only with very great difficulty made up his mind to come back...
...temporary lull in the Arab-Israeli conflict should not be mistaken for peace and stability. With the ingredients of discontent left fermenting, it is only a matter of time before violence escalates again. This devolution is not, however, inevitable...
...complement the Soviets' military support. According to most accounts, Moscow's occupation force effectively controlled all of Afghanistan's major cities and highways, but still faced considerable resistance in rural areas; perhaps 80% of the barren countryside remained in rebel hands. After a four-day lull, attacks by Muslim insurgents flared again in the northeast provinces of Badakhshan and Takhar. Civil unrest, according to U.S. intelligence reports, erupted repeatedly inside Kandahar, an ancient trading center on the edge of the Desert of Death. Soviet forces also found themselves in confrontation with mutinous units of the crumbling Afghan...
...There has been a ten-year lull since the advances of the 1960s and the tide is going out," Chisolm said...