Word: lull
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...herbal preparations lull you into ignoring serious problems. "A lot of my patients with hepatitis C take milk thistle," says Dr. Melissa Palmer, a liver specialist in Plainview, N.Y. "It seems to normalize their liver-function tests, but it doesn't affect the underlying disease...
Dartmouth had one last chance to regain itstwo-goal lead with two minutes left in the firsthalf when a lull in the Harvard defense allowedDartmouth to penetrate the middle and get a shotoff from 20 yards...
...lull between the completion of his novel, which he was still tinkering with in late summer, and all the publication hubbub to follow, Wolfe finds himself with the unaccustomed luxury of free time on his hands. He has filled some of it by accompanying his son Tommy, an accomplished squash player, to tournaments along the East Coast. "I used to play with him," Wolfe says of the son who is 55 years younger, "until I noticed him setting up shots for me. In aging athletes, the legs go first...
When tourism hits a lull during the fall months, the American and European tourists who are there cannot walk a spleef's length without attracting some sort of attention from the locals. It is often hard to distinguish friendliness from salesmanship among Jamaicans, which can be off-putting--nearly every conversation leads to a proposition to buy somethings: hair braids, motor scooters, marijuana, mushroom tea, ecstasy, heroin, cocaine, or crack. But even if it seems like the Jamaican local is aiming to grab that $20 bill pasted on each tourist's forehead, these dealers are nothing to be afraid...
Thankfully, the administration has moved closer to the launch of air-strikes against Serb positions. In 1995, similar strikes helped bring about the lull in hostilities that allowed the negotiation of the Dayton Peace Accords. We hope that Milosevic yields to diplomatic pressure, but if military force is necessary to halt the bloodshed...