Word: lulled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...left-wing insurgency. While the rebels fell back to ponder the fate of their crusade, the Salvadoran high command exhorted them to lay down their arms and "join the fight the people want, the struggle for peace." But the unspoken truce did not last long. After a two-month lull in the fighting, the guerrillas launched an offensive in northern Morazan department, claiming to have killed 200 soldiers in five days, and seized two towns before retreating under intense bombing raids by the government's new A-37B Dragonfly jets. "The guerrillas' latest offensive has not been...
...departments has begun to settle down. The public has begun to realize the new companies will not provide mass-produced biological cure-alls, and financial investors no longer regard them as a quick get-rich scheme. In addition, officials at Harvard and other universities have taken advantage of the "lull" to resolve some of the basic problems that plagued the academic-private sector relationship. As one official puts it, the once highly controversial relationship "has begun to gather dust...
...behind the spectacle of lurid testimony and legal gymnastics several disturbing issues have arisen which have since been eclipsed by the dicier reports of courtroom confrontation. The current lull in the action affords an opportunity for review...
...ruse to lull us while the Kremlin prepared a geopolitical offensive? Or were the Soviets sobered by Nixon's firmness into settling for restraint? Did they seek detente only as a tactical maneuver? Or was there a serious possibility for a long period of stability in U.S.-Soviet relations...
Against Princeton, a day earlier., McLaughlin had bellowed at his troops to step lively, fearing that the famed slow-motion Tiger offense would once again lull a determined Harvard squad into submission...