Word: lulled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Time, Newsweek and The New Republic insist on speaking of the election as if it were already over. David Letterman, Jay Leno and Johnny Carson resort to Democratic futility jokes whenever they hit a lull. In The Crimson, ("George Bush and the Seven Dwarves," Sept. 18), Michael R. Grunwald wrote: "Beat Bush/Quayle? The Dems couldn't beat Bush/Hitler...
...Wildcats capitalized on the lull and drilled the Crimson for two goals in a nine-minute stretch...
Holy Cross took advantage of the Harvard lull to grab two runs, one in the seventh and one in the eighth to tie the game. The first was a Stefvan Drezek solo home run over the left field fence, and the second came on two hits and a sacrifice...
After that decade lull, she jumped into overdrive. Recently returned from a sold-out debut in Paris, she will gig for a month in California this spring and will play Carnegie Hall for the first time on June 25. But she still understands need: all kinds of need, from longing to desperation, with all the melancholy shadings in between. Maybe that's the secret of her music. Not only the musical dexterity but the heart that's always open and eager to share. "It's just the way I feel about a song," she says. "They call me the slowest...
...Gurion Airport, killing 400 Soviet Jewish immigrants just off the plane. Thousands of Israelis were slaughtered by the Scuds, and the Dimona nuclear complex in the Negev lies in ruins. The Americans lost 100,000 soldiers in battle. Iraq's withdrawal from Kuwait was only tactical, designed to lull the allies, while Saddam Hussein waited for the right moment to incinerate the Jewish state. "Every Palestinian knows that Saddam will emerge victorious," said Abdul Majeed Shahin as he discussed the war with a dozen others gathered in Jerusalem's Muslim quarter last week. "You see, he's got a secret...