Word: lull
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Rains continued, the rivers rose and though evidence of continued German concentration was reported by reconnaissance, the Western Front appeared due for another long lull while the war of blockades was intensified over the North...
...disbanding W. R. B. last fortnight, the President did not end this crisis within a crisis. But at a time when he needed a maximum of accord among those immediately around him, he did achieve at least an armistice, a lull in a war that will some time be fought to a finish...
...Lull'd in these flowers with dances and delight...
...Mongols were still on the "wrong" side of the Khalka River, and the Japanese were "reluctant" to dislodge them. Manchukuoan Government-controlled newspapers hinted that if the Soviet Union the would negotiate Japan was ready to call the two months of border warfare a draw. But after a brief lull heavy artillery was again booming along the Khalka as the Soviet Mongols were reported attacking...
...sweet innocency, by high-life rules paired at a table with a young man with a wife and children at home. All aglow in her youthful innocent glee she unfolded plans made to pair with him at each following public function, with an added trip during the lull at New York to visit a friend of his, to take through the highways, byways, hellish beckonings at every turn, through similar routes from which thousands like her never return...