Word: lull
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...with my best friend from high school a handful of times this year. But despite that, we still understand each other in a way that no one else would be able to. And whenever we do see each other, it doesn’t take long for that awkward lull to pass over...
...attacks against U.S. and Iraqi forces is hovering around 30 to 40 a day, down from a spike of 140 in the days leading up to the Jan. 30 election. But a senior Pentagon official doesn't know whether the lower number amounts to a trend or only a lull. "It could just as well go up next week," he says. The ever present dangers for both foreign and Iraqi civilians were underscored last week by the kidnapping of a U.S. contractor and a rash of suicide bombings; 19 Iraqis were killed in a single...
...During a lull in the Soviet shelling, the two bodies were carried upstairs to the Chancellery garden, doused with gasoline and set afire. Even before the flames died down, renewed shelling drove the survivors underground again. Goebbels and Nazi Party Secretary Martin Bormann decided to try offering the Soviets a deal. On May 1 they sent a general to Soviet headquarters to propose a surrender of Berlin in exchange for their own safety in leaving the city. During the long interval before the general returned with a Soviet rejection, Goebbels decided that he too must die. He ordered...
...condemn this attack in the strongest possible terms. Whoever is behind this attack has one aim, which is to sabotage the peace efforts." SAEB EREKAT, chief Palestinian negotiator, on the suicide bombing near a Tel Aviv nightclub that killed four people and ended a relative lull in Israeli-Palestinian violence...
...responsibility for that decision. Furthermore, Harvard has no incentive to cut financial aid—which keeps the Univeristy competitive among its peer institutions—first. We have no reason to think Harvard wouldn’t find some source of money to make up for a lull in donations...