Word: lulled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Battle plans and alliances, formed during this summer's lull, are about to be tested...
Iraq revived the tanker war on Aug. 29 after a 45-day lull that coincided with the U.S. military buildup and the Security Council resolution. Iraqi fighter jets swooped down over three Iranian oil facilities in widely separated locations. In the southern gulf, they set ablaze the tanker Alvand at Sirri Island as the ship was being loaded with Iranian oil. In the central gulf, they attacked an oil-loading facility on the island of Lavan. In the north they bombed and strafed the island of Farsi, used by Iranian Revolutionary Guards as a base for speedboat assaults against gulf...
This question is most critical when it comes to Western Europe. A European missile deal could be seen as "decoupling" the defense of the U.S. from that of its allies. Gorbachev's new accommodating line could also lull the West into a false sense of security and endanger the cohesiveness of the Atlantic Alliance. By employing the very opposite of cold war tactics, the Soviets could conceivably make more headway than ever in pursuit of their long- standing goal: gaining influence throughout Europe...
...four years acting at Harvard, went to Chicago. "The most difficult thing is making the decision to do it," he says. Within two weeks he was cast as the lead in Arthur Miller's Creation of the World at the Performer's Arena. But in January he hit a lull. Although his parents had given him enough money to pay for a year's rent, it was gone within four months. He wasn't being cast and had to take a job in a bookstore to support himself. "It was a real depressing period," he says. "But I kept telling...
Then comes the lull, when we wait for the Spectacle to begin. From nowhere, the shell comes into view. A round of applause, A gentle docking from coxswain Jerome Chao...