Word: lulled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When the armies of the U.N. and the Communists were settled down in the limited Korean lull last fall, U.S. General James A. Van Fleet was worried about stagnation's effect on his Eighth Army. "A 'sitdown' army is subject to collapse at the first sign of an enemy effort," he said then. "An army that stops to tie its shoestrings seldom regains the initiative...
...Missing Billions. The stormy weather in which the, Maritime Board found itself was not the fault of its present boss, Vice Admiral (ret.) Edward Lull Cochrane. Boss of the Navy's Bureau of Ships during World War II and a crack naval architect, Cochrane became head of the Federal Maritime Board in 1950, when it was set up within the Commerce Department to replace the old Maritime Commission. He has been trying diligently to unscramble its problems ever since...
...varsity swimmers, undergoing the lull before the liquidation, have a breather with Columbia tonight, a week before the annual sacrifice to Yale. The Lion meet is scheduled for 8 p.m. at the Indoor Athletic Building...
...Housemasters have already spotted this inconsistency, and last fall they attempted to remove it. Because the recommendations they made at that time were rejected, the common-room system may be the furthest they can go in solving the parietal problem. However, this concession should not lull them into believing that the problem no longer exists, and that they should renew their older and less-enlightened stand when the subject is reconsidered...
Expert on England, David E. Owen, professor of History, stated that at present there was "a temporary lull which may or may not produce later fireworks." The ouster of the Wafdist group and subsequent appointment of the new independent cabinet was necessitated by the emergency conditions, according to Owen. He was unsure whether or not Maher Pasha's government would meet with any success. "It must first," he said, "get a working agreement during the present breathing spell...