Word: lull
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...chosen to lull the rest of the world, to relax the external pressure in the cold war by seeming to give much and actually giving little, is an old and skilled hand at the game. He is Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov, Foreign Minister of Russia and Communism's Old Reliable-who has been a member of the Politburo longer than anyone else (32 years...
...they are, the Chinese accompanied their new truce offers with strong ground attacks on the U.N. battle line. They gave no indication as to why they had extended the olive branch again. Bitter experience had convinced most U.S. observers that Communist concessions are always made in the hope of lulling opponents into dangerous relaxation. The lull the Communists were seeking this time, however, may come in any one of three handy sizes...
...enough to support counterbattery fire or to cope with Chinese "human sea" attacks. All the Pentagon witnesses conceded that in the past reserve stocks in Korea had fallen dangerously low. Under questioning by Harry Byrd, General Collins finally admitted that, so far as ammunition supplies were concerned, the lull following the July 1951 armistice talks in Korea had come as a desperately needed respite...
...change from Stalin to Malenkov & Co. might bring changes of tactics, a more pressing threat or a more cunning effort to lull the anti-Communist world to sleep. But the Kremlin and all that it stood for endured, essentially unchanged in its meaning and its menace...
...frustrate Red efforts to build up their reserves during the lull, the U.S. Fifth Air Force sent hundreds of Thunder-jets, Shooting Stars and Mustangs ranging over Communist camping grounds in western Korea. Night-raiding B-26 and B-29 bombers struck at Communist supply bases and transport columns rolling southward towards the front. The Reds retaliated with a propaganda attack: a Communist plane dropped leaflets on U.S. lines showing American civilians relaxing in Caribbean sunshine. Front-line loudspeakers played Christmas carols. Through the imperfect loudspeaker transmission, some listeners thought they heard the phrase, in imperfect English: "We want...