Word: lull
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During a brief lull, Drori retreated behind a courtyard wall and returned fire until a magazine in his M-203 rifle jammed. He switched to a grenade launcher attached to the rifle. His fire drew an answer, and he was hit in the leg. Of the 16 men in his company, only three escaped being wounded or killed...
...father was born at home, at 4:16 a.m. on Feb. 6, 1911, after a long and difficult labor. He will spend his birthday surrounded by the lull of the soft voices and eyes that speak more clearly than words. We come to his side quiet as fawns...
...gotten used to other things, too, like tracing the outlines of my father's face with my hands, a caress that neither of us would have been comfortable with before. And talking to him in a loping, melodic tone, a parental tone, one meant to soothe and lull. This is the man who lifted me onto a horse when I was small, whose strong swimmer's arms moved him confidently through churning seawater. His grip is still strong, but his hands and arms are thin...
...Friday's suicide bombing attack in Tel Aviv, in which 24 Israelis were wounded, followed by Israeli air strikes on PA security buildings in Gaza and the West Bank, served as a vivid reminder of the recent sharp increase in violence. The three-week lull that followed Arafat's December 16 cease-fire speech has given way to an almost daily exchange of Palestinian terror attacks and Israeli assassinations of Palestinian radicals. And the Bush administration continues to hold Arafat primarily responsible...
...Reports from Ramallah of a depressed, disengaged Arafat contemplating his own death suggest the Palestinian leader isn't about to start rounding up the militants even if Washington threatens to cut him off altogether. The lull in violence he managed to engineer following his December 16 speech was based on persuading the various militant factions that a cease-fire was in the overriding national interest of the Palestinians. But those same factions cite continued Israeli assassinations of their leaders and the absence of any easing of the blockade on Palestinian daily life as reasons to keep fighting. Few observers...