Word: lull
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Outside Dallas, Interstate 35 splits into two identically numbered segments, differentiated by a tiny W and E, which run north and south. Lulled by interstate monotony, the unwary sometimes fail to notice the split, and circle the city on the 35s and their various permutations until they give up and opt for Waco. That furnishes the underpinning for the legend of the ghost of I-35. It is said in Western truck stops that once a young couple with a small child (some versions claim twin children) circled Dallas in July until their auto air conditioner failed and they died...
...awake I am torn between a desire to enjoy the world and a desire to improve the world. This makes it hard to place the day." We tended more towards enjoyment than improvement. This was not all bad, for the improvement part would come later. We were the lull before the storm of the 1960s...
...During a lull in Senate debate Thursday night, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.) introduced a resolution congratulating Roger Clemens for his performance that thrust the righthander into baseball lore...
Telexes were down. The lights in the hotel were out. Newspaper correspondents, like Edward Schumacher of the New York Times and G. Jefferson Price III of the Baltimore Sun, dictated a few paragraphs over ABC's open line during a lull in the barrage. Their reports, taped by ABC, were then passed on to their papers...
South African divestment activism might be at a temporary lull at Harvard, but at other campuses across the country, sparks continue to fly during the cold winter months...