Word: lulled
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...action brings to 74 the number of indictments since October when the lull in Selective Service indictments ended...
...initial cease-fire between Israel and Egypt had hardly taken effect last August before both sides were using the lull to prepare for war. Israel's Bar-Lev Line, along the Suez Canal's east bank, was extended and impressively hardened. Across the canal, the late Gamal Abdel Nasser rushed so many Soviet-built missiles forward that, as a Western diplomat in Cairo cracked last week, "even if the Russians wanted to move more in, they probably couldn't find a place to put them...
...uncle Sid Lotenberg-married to my grandmother's youngest sister-is red faced and wild. As my grandmother's friends arrive, he tells each one she is lovelier than the one before. They love it. During a lull, he leans his head my way and says, "I'm drunk as a coon...
...While attempting to keep American casualties down, to lull the American public, they have gone on with the use of the Air Force in both Cambodia and Laos-and now North Vietnam," Mendelsohn said. "At the same time they have regularly lied to the public about the nature of the air warfare...
Since the U.S. completed its withdrawal from Cambodia in late June, the fighting in Indochina has fallen off drastically. The U.S. death toll for the week ending July 4, for example, was 61, the lowest in 31 years. The comparative battlefield lull was overshadowed, however, by intense diplomatic activity. As Secretary of State William P. Rogers wound up his 15-day, five-nation Asian tour, he spoke of "further political initiatives that might be taken for peace." These words, combined with other comments by U.S. officials, led the government of President Nguyen Van Thieu to wonder if Washington was thinking...