Word: lull
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...Housemasters have already spotted this inconsistency, and last fall they attempted to remove it. Because the recommendations they made at that time were rejected, the common-room system may be the furthest they can go in solving the parietal problem. However, this concession should not lull them into believing that the problem no longer exists, and that they should renew their older and less-enlightened stand when the subject is reconsidered...
...What are you doing now?" TIME Correspondent Cranston Jones asked the Tunisian villagers during a lull in the fighting last week...
Expert on England, David E. Owen, professor of History, stated that at present there was "a temporary lull which may or may not produce later fireworks." The ouster of the Wafdist group and subsequent appointment of the new independent cabinet was necessitated by the emergency conditions, according to Owen. He was unsure whether or not Maher Pasha's government would meet with any success. "It must first," he said, "get a working agreement during the present breathing spell...
...pound a gong and say that the U.N. had won. The Reds knew they were not in a debate. In the Communists' eyes, their spokesmen at Panmunjom were fighting a battle, just as truly as their troops in the field had been fighting up to the November lull. In their view, the negotiators were as thoroughly bound as battlefield soldiers to evade, confuse and deceive their enemy...
...skeleton had been assembled, his height determined, dental chart plotted. If the data obtained from this work checks with a name listed on a unit roster, another U.S. fighting man's name will be transferred from "missing in action" to "killed in action." In the fighting lull, the unsung men of Graves Registration were busy trying to bridge the gap between the 11,000 U.S. troops listed as missing, and the mere 3,000 names of persons on the lists handed over by the Reds...