Word: lull
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...initial shooting lasted for five minutes. After a brief lull, there came sporadic bursts of gunfire from inside the Savoy, then the long staccato of a Kalashnikov. It was answered by the wind-sucking thump of an Israeli bazooka fired from the beach 100 yds. away. Suddenly the building shook with a tremendous explosion as a bomb rigged by the terrorists went off. The hotel's third and fourth floors collapsed in rubble. The attack was over...
...went to the House of Commons for her first serious parliamentary skirmish with Prime Minister Harold Wilson, who had just returned from a visit with Soviet Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev in Moscow and was feeling ebullient. Such dealings with the Soviets were fine, declared Mrs. Thatcher, provided they "never lull this House or this country into a sense of false security." In an unsubtle reference to the Tory leader's admitted lack of expertise in foreign affairs, Wilson condescendingly retorted: "Some of us are rather old hands at these matters...
...Hudson, where high school and football and the prom is still important. But when the Elks member explains his reasons for excluding blacks from his club, and the banker in Poplarville, Mississippi talks about "nigras," the reactionary trap of the Liberal as guilty populist gapes wide, trying to lull us into thinking that it is somehow "openminded" to tolerate these attitudes. Lest the good writing mislead us, it is helpful to remember that this is still journalism, and these are real people...
...Claes Rooth: "If there ever was a pseudo topic, it's the Bermuda triangle." Rooth attributes many of the disappearances to violent weather occurring suddenly over the warm water in the triangle. "It is like being hit by a tornado," he says. "Nice weather conditions in the area lull you into a sense of false security." Other experts point out that the swift current of the Gulf Stream quickly carries debris far from an accident site; "lost without a trace" thus becomes easily understandable...
...lots of time for talking at the airport, and at a lull in the conversation one of our hosts said, the way you might ask a stranger how did he like President Ford, "In your opinion, what is the main motive force in history?" My impression was that it served the same function as a question about Ford might--to see if we were on the same side, as it were. The only other time someone seemed to be asking a question for that reason was when a schoolteacher asked about the Vietnam war: I guess students tend...