Word: lullingly
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...Washington Correspondent Lawrence Malkin, a veteran economic reporter who interviewed Shultz for the cover story, and was working in London in 1967, the scenario was familiar: "The pattern is always the same: the frenzy on the exchange markets, the weekend lull while international officials work out their deals, then the aftermath of uncertainty." That aftermath is particularly significant to Malkin, who is being transferred to London. Says he: "I am now watching the money markets with a deeply personal interest...
...During a lull, we ducked inside a shattered shop to catch our breath. Across the street, three Vietnamese marines emerged from an alley and cuffed a man in Vietnamese army green across the street into our shop. The marines were angry. They yelled at the prisoner, pushed him around and threatened him with their rifles. The man was frightened but calm; he obviously thought the Ranger patch on his sleeve assured his safety. Just then a battered civilian car clanked up, and a sweating Vietnamese marine lieutenant jumped out. The marines chattered excitedly. The lieutenant listened impassively. The prisoner waited...
...worry. The book is still lull of gems. For those who need definitions of Yiddishisms that have crept into everyday use, Rosten provides examples, many with a fond patina of age: chutzpa is a case of "a man who, having killed his mother and father, asks the court for mercy because he is an orphan, poor schlemiel is a man who "falls on his back and breaks his nose." Some lines are cosmic as well as comic: "The rich have heirs, not children." "Good men need no recommendation and bad men it wouldn't help...
...swift swings between lull and violence, hope and despair, the Viet Nam War has often had a manic character to it. Never more so than in the latest extraordinary episode in which, within the space of 40 days, the world moved from a sense of peace at last at hand, to the most brutal U.S. bombing of the war, to Washington's declaration late last week that the secret Paris peace talks would begin again on Jan. 8. Through Deputy Press Secretary Gerald Warren, President Nixon announced that he was halting the massive aerial punishment of North Viet...
EVEN ASSUMING THAT Kennedy's "olive branch" to real remarks do not presage a lasting detente in the liberal Cold War against Nixon. As predictably as taxes fail to rise in election years, opposition candidates escalate their fire when campaigns accelerate. But the current lull in fighting is more than a ceasefire. It is a sweeping retrenchment, and it marks a huge change in Kennedy's strategy for the '76 election...