Word: lullingly
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...lull of reconversion into classrooms and offices for the Physics Department and professors in Social Relations, Shannon Hall is an eerie empty shell. The upper stories are barren since the Army took away their two Jima pictures and recruitment posters last year. The Air Force unit still occupies one office, but it is impossible to find. The Navy has been ghettoized off in a basement corridor...
...armored personnel carriers arrived at the Dhanmandi home of Sheik Mujibur ("Mujib") Rahman, 51, the political leader behind the campaign for Bengali independence. Mujib first took refuge beneath a bed when the Special Security Group commandos began to spray his house with small-arms fire. Then, during a lull, he went to the downstairs veranda, raised his hands in surrender and shouted, "There is no need for shooting. Here I am. Take...
...which usually keeps things clean in union elections. Although the results are binding on no one, the parents voted 435 to 300 against Hofer. Mercifully, spring vacation began the next day. Barr vanished to heal his wounds on a two-week Caribbean cruise. But with national politics in a lull, Dalton's activist parents are sure to resume their new recreation of baiting or boosting Barr when the beleaguered headmaster returns...
...special section, "The Cooling of America," provides an excellent insight into the mood and thinking of today. It takes a special talent to look at present-day happenings and give such objective reasoning and analysis. Let us hope that this present feeling is the lull before something good and not just a pause before something...
Relaxing in the lull before the storm, Bok said the period of speculation about his candidacy "hasn't been too bad, partly because people around the Law School, my colleagues, really have been exceedingly good-not poking fun or asking questions...