Word: lullingly
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After a two-week lull, the Communists were on the offensive again. Only 3,500 strong, but well-equipped and highly trained, the Reds seemed well on the way to taking over Laos' important northern provinces. Phongsaly, which borders directly on both China and North Viet Nam, was heavily penetrated. Samneua was now almost entirely surrounded by a 20-mile-wide ring of Communists, and at least a third of the province was under Red control...
...took a deep breath and prepared to make an authoritative entrance into his Soc. Rel. class. But, all the way down the long aisle, Vag was acutely aware of the fact that his rubbers were being more authoritative than he was. He tried walking slowly, hoping to lull his rubbers into relative silence, but they were not so easily tricked. Vag fell into a seat in near panic. It was at least fifteen minutes before he was capable of taking notes...
...prostrate with joy to learn that he acquired a new Bible last week. It cost $34.95, has 773,692 words in it, and it is such interesting reading we are considering asking ministers of our acquaintance to base a Sunday sermon on it one day when there is a lull upon the congregation from an overdose of economics, labor statistics, soil conservation, politics and the lagging subscription campaign for a bigger church...
Tread & Wine. In Seattle, pressed into emergency service to play the role of the Apostle Simon in a performance of the Passion Play, Automobile Dealer Joseph Gandy took advantage of a lull during the Last Supper to sell a Ford to the man playing James...
...them had either transferred to schools out of the city (650 students are estimated to have left) or made arrangements to attend some sort of makeshift class. Most of the classes still lacked teachers, equipment and classrooms, and those that had got under way seemed better calculated to lull the old than inform the young. But makeshifts and promises have done their job well so far; even after seven weeks of locked schools, few Little Rock white students and their parents are complaining out loud...