Word: lulled
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Drifters? story for an episode of "Behind the Music." But when L&S and their team did make music, it was beautiful. "This Magic Moment," for example, begins with violins doing giddy, hurricane-force arpeggios. The chorus is musically and lyrically ordinary, but that?s just to lull you before the surprise of a great bridge. An acoustic guitar goes Latino in a minor key, and King sings gently: "Sweeter than wine/ Softer than the summer night..." Then the melody returns to its dominant chord, backing singers join in for an open-throated "Aaaah" and King declares: "Everything I want...
...DOWNTOWN BRIDGE A maintenance man takes advantage of the lull to mop the tile floor in the narrow walkway that funnels pedestrians from Mexico into downtown Laredo. Customs supervisor Greg Salinas expects the traffic to pick up in a few hours, when the borrachos come over, the drunks and Friday-night revelers who have been enjoying the Nuevo Laredo night life, some even venturing to Boystown, the red-light district, where prostitutes have held court for generations of Texas fraternity boys, roughnecks and cowboys. The revelers will buy tequila and six-packs of Corona at half the U.S. price...
TIME.com: Fighting in Macedonia has flared up again after another brief lull, and the government has launched offensives on two fronts against Albanian separatists. Is the government winning...
...There was a lull just before the sprint and [B.U.] moved on it," Davies said...
...Crimson's frustration boiled over again shortly after Northeastern tied the game at 2-2 in the sixth. As Harvard took the field between innings, Harvard Assistant Coach Gary Donovan took advantage of the lull in the action to exchange a few more choice words with the umpire...