Word: lullingly
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With the threat of a steel strike postponed until at least Sept. 1 by an interim pay increase of 2.6% to workers, Lyndon Johnson took advantage of the lull in bargaining tension to make public the findings of a four-month study made by Otto Eckstein, a former Harvard economics professor who has been a member of the Council of Economic Advisers since last September. The steel industry, said the 64-page council report, can afford to raise wages 3% this year without boosting its prices. "The prosperity and stability of the whole economy," added the President, require such...
What's more, the officer raged, West Berlin police were trying to lull their Communist counterparts with an organized campaign of kindness. His complaint was well founded. For weeks West Berlin cops have been under orders to pass out cigarettes, candy and even food to East Berlin guards on the theory that this will lead them to deal less harshly with escapers trying to get to the West...
...Snake. Given this evidence, it was not surprising that the North Vietnamese thought they could continue to operate with impunity from their privileged sanctuary against the South. Finally, they provoked Lyndon Johnson beyond patience. The attack that started the escalator came on Feb. 7, following a week-long lull in the war while Vietnamese celebrated the lunar New Year. As the Year of the Dragon went out and the Year of the Snake came in, the Viet Cong had unilaterally proclaimed a seven-day ceasefire. They spent that period busily caching explosives and setting up mortar positions near the central...
...afternoon lull in Harvard Square was disturbed yesterday as nearly 200 chanting, placard-carrying marchers filed down Mass. Ave., protesting U.S. involvement in Vietnam...
...exuberance that the actors transmit to us makes the fairy tale's happy ending even more delightful. But Giraudoux's philosophical conclusion is not sanguine. His satire is too sharp, his villains too sinister, to lull us into sleepy security. Though evil may have been destroyed in the fantasy, Giraudox reminds us that, in real life, it is still attacking us, and that only the mad remain innocent. Love, like innocence, is elusive. Aurelie moans for her long-lost lover, Adolphe Bertaut, yet when he and all of the world's Adolphe Bertaut's offer themselves to her, she cries...