Word: lulled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Lull. The following morning, Governor Barnett was scheduled to appear before the Court of Appeals in New Orleans to answer to charges of contempt. As was expected, he stayed in Mississippi. The court tried him in absentia, found him guilty, gave him four days to "purge himself" of the contempt, and set a stern penalty if he failed to comply: $10,000-a-day fine, and confinement in the custody of the U.S. Attorney General...
Blood & Starvation. In 1775, a year of lull before the years of Indian raids and counterraids began again, the average settler (perhaps, like Daniel Boone, a "long hunter" turned family man) lived in "a stump-dotted clearing of two or three acres in a one-room, earthen-floored cabin which had just taken the place of last year's half-faced camp." His possessions were what he had made himself or carried on his back from civilization. If he had had a cow, he had butchered her that winter to save his family from starving. He could count...
...adequate base of pure research, but it has just not been applied," says Economist J. J. McSweeny, Sperry's director of long-range planning. Scientists point out that it often takes decades for research to translate itself into standard-of-living goods, and right now there is a lull. The man who led the development of the U-2 spy plane, Lockheed Vice President Kelly Johnson, says: "We are not lacking in the capability to invent. Where we have trouble is in the incentive to invent." Raising the Rewards. With much fanfare, corporations have been tinkering for years with...
...fill her thrice-weekly columns for the Star (plus her once-a-week national column, now in 75 papers), Betty goes to 500 parties a year, avoids so much as a sip of wine for fear it will lull her into missing a story. Most of her parties are loaded with diplomats, and she prepares for them by studying the news carefully; she is always alert for the informed conversation that will give her a hard news story. "Getting anything out of the people who are the news of the day is the most important thing," she says...
...summer. The Harvard-Radcliffe orchestra took off on a tour of Mexico, and the non-musical students went home, to Maine, to Europe, or mostly just to work. The winter session was over, but Harvard made national news once more before quieting down for the pre-Summer School lull. On Commencement Day, it was announced that a popular and respected history professor--Franklin Lewis Ford--has been appointed Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. This was the position that McGeorge Bundy held before going to Washington to be Kennedy's special assistant for national security...