Word: lull
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...There needs to be a critical mass of regular faculty to do replacement hiring in a proper way,” Buell said. “There will be a one year lull, I won’t say hiatus. We have absolutely not mortgaged our future...
...first base just a split-second behind Yale pitcher John Janco’s pickoff throw in Saturday’s second game, it certainly seemed that yet another Harvard inning, along with Mann, had gone up in a cloud of dust, one more casualty of the between-game lull that has provoked Harvard coach Joe Walsh to indefinitely ban parent-sponsored potlucks from future doubleheaders...
...After a string of explosions that lasted at least 10 minutes, there was a brief lull, and I began to back away towards the wall. I had only gone a few meters when a new round of blasts began. A rocket, flying no more than a meter off the ground, smashed into the mound to my left, setting off even louder explosions. Again, I was flattened on the ground, my clothes rippling from the shockwaves...
...rallyers lined up along Beacon Street in the dismal rain, about five Northeastern students passed out posters that read “Down With Saddam” in red letters. During a lull in the drizzle, some rallyers began to sing “God Bless America...
...brief lull there was no fire from either side and the infantry began to slowly inch forward again. Almost immediately, they came under a fusillade of fire from a large white building on the far edge of the apartment complex. There was a brief moment of chatter on the radio: "We are taking heavy fire from our left." Close air support was already rolling in and an air Liaison officer on the ground was designating the new target...