Word: lulled
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Harvard (3-9-0, 2-7-0 ECAC) hasn’t played another game since the Catamounts lit the lamp. After a busy November—11 games, including six against top-20 opponents—the Crimson entered a two-and-a-half-week lull in the schedule...
...reestablishes Brand New as the champions of the artfully screamed chorus, and “Limousine” strikes a fine balance between eerie melody and seething rage. The simple, repeated notes and accompanying strings of “You Won’t Know,” lull you into a false sense of security before Lacey and his bandmates explode with a harmonic, shrieking power that typifies the beauty of their music. The high-pitched verses of “Not The Sun” sounds almost like a tribute to Wolf Parade, and the bridge...
...sake of argument, let's say that the Baker-Bush position is right: the U.S. sets a timetable for withdrawal, and a prolonged lull in violence follows. Is any reasonable person prepared to argue that this would be a bad thing? If anything, a pause in fighting would pose a greater threat to the long-term prospects of the insurgents and militias than it would to the government. The combatants in the civil war feed off the fears of ordinary Iraqis, who look to the armed groups for protection against their sectarian rivals. If the violence were to suddenly stop...
...seductive delivery and ability to sway between tenderness and swagger; in Las Vegas. In the 1950s the fledgling Atlantic Records--for whom she recorded hits like Teardrops from My Eyes and (Mama) He Treats Your Daughter Mean--was called "the house that Ruth built." After a 25-year lull, she won new fans in the '80s, performing in the Broadway stage revue Black and Blue and winning a Grammy for the 1989 album Blues on Broadway...
...stopped during the war years. The second influence was the reverse of the first. The war produced a tremendous surge of unhappy, dislocated, economically troubled people from the broken-up empire of Austria-Hungary, and people just poured out of Europe. You had four years of an absolute lull, and then you had boats arriving in numbers we had just never seen...