Word: lullingly
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Moscow last week seemed strangely quiet, becalmed by a news and diplomatic lull unparalleled in recent years. Virtually all the top Kremlin leaders were away from the capital, most of them probably down on the Black Sea coast talking business at Nikita Khrushchev's winter vacation spot. Hence the West's surprise when Moscow abruptly decided to heat up the Berlin crisis again with an ominous threat to the Allies' three air corridors that lead over Communist territory to the surrounded city...
...headquarters and an important Katanga army building a few hundred yards away. For hours the missionaries ducked, as blast after blast struck their walls and plowed up the garden outside. Then they realized that badly aimed bazooka shells from the U.N. compound itself were doing the damage; during a lull in the firing, they hastily evacuated the buildings...
...This program would lull you into a false sense of security...
...make it as a prodigy-and he made it big. The more uninhibited critics, recalls Ricci. "called me the greatest violinist playing, which meant that I have had to fight Ricci ever since." Now 41, Ricci is still fighting Ricci. He seems to be doing nicely. During a lull in his frenzied concert career, he turned up in a Manhattan recording studio last week to cut two albums (for Decca). The fiddling was the kind that prodigious nine-year-olds can only envy...
...weeks the Red guerrillas, known as the Viet Cong, had steered clear of large-scale action, choosing instead to dart out in small bands on minor missions of sabotage and murder. U.S. military advisers, rushed to South Viet Nam after the debacle in Laos, used the lull to train government troops in special new mobile tactics. Dozens of U.S. "Special Forces" operatives joined army units to demonstrate night operations, sneak attacks, better use of landing craft in the canals of the Mekong delta. Fortnight ago, reports filtered in that big Communist groups were moving south from Cambodia toward the marshes...