Word: lull
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...front lines across Korea, the general picture was one of lull before a storm. A U.S. private described it as "a little noise and a lot of climbing." General
...lull between its hearings on Communism in Hollywood, the House Un-American Activities Committee last week issued another report on the doings of U.S. Reds and their supporters. The theme of the report this time was "The Communist 'Peace' Offensive," and the committeemen listed more than 350 prominent U.S. citizens-scientists, artists, "an inordinately large proportion of clerics"-who had signed up for "peace/' Russian-style. Well up on the list: Oscar Winners Jose (Cyrano de Bergerac) Ferrer and Judy (Born Yesterday) Holliday (TIME, April...
...between-semester lull in sports activity has been enlivened by high verbal blasts from sundry directions. It started in Dallas and rapidly worked its way across the country to Pennsylvania...
...After a lull, the enemy began a series of probing attacks. One of these, in less than company strength, was carried out by Chinese wearing U.S. helmets and winter clothing. It was easily repulsed. Then, one morning in the darkness before dawn, after a lot of mass singing, bugling and cymbal-clashing, some 2,500 Reds launched a heavy assault on the west face of the perimeter...
Locustlike Swarm. Because it had wheels, the Eighth outdistanced the pursuing foe. Other than patrol actions and skirmishes, there was hardly any fighting last week in the western sector, but spokesmen both in the field and in Tokyo warned that the lull was deceptive. The intelligence estimate was that 18 divisions of Chinese were trying to come to grips with the Eighth Army. Chinese crossed the Taedong estuary in a vast fleet of power junks and small craft; farther back they waded the Chongchon and tinged the icy river with blood when allied airplanes strafed them. But the locustlike swarm...