Word: lull
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...April 4: LULL BEFORE THE STORM...
Life here will then enter a brief lull until 1602 freshmen descend on Harvard Yard September...
...driven to analyzing not what the trip accomplished but whether it had any content at all. It was the White House that staged and stamped it as news and the press that went along for the ride. The networks, eager to give an air of importance to the summer lull, are all too willing to play along with staged news, and thus share a complicity. President Reagan now has big-league competition in the creation of news, non-news and is-it-or-isn't-it news. Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev has obviously spent a lot of time analyzing...
Outside Dallas, Interstate 35 splits into two identically numbered segments, differentiated by a tiny W and E, which run north and south. Lulled by interstate monotony, the unwary sometimes fail to notice the split, and circle the city on the 35s and their various permutations until they give up and opt for Waco. That furnishes the underpinning for the legend of the ghost of I-35. It is said in Western truck stops that once a young couple with a small child (some versions claim twin children) circled Dallas in July until their auto air conditioner failed and they died...
...awake I am torn between a desire to enjoy the world and a desire to improve the world. This makes it hard to place the day." We tended more towards enjoyment than improvement. This was not all bad, for the improvement part would come later. We were the lull before the storm of the 1960s...