Word: lullingly
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...better than 100% of capacity, they have more orders on their books than they can handle. Detroit's automakers alone will need enough steel to build an estimated 6,500,000 new cars in 1957, are already cranking up to top production speed. After a two-month lull for model changeover, the auto industry is working overtime to build 38 new cars each minute, plans to work overtime and Saturdays throughout November and December to keep pace with optimistic forecasts of fourth-quarter business...
...York City, Eisenhower, incredibly, led by 51.2% to 48.8%). At Republican headquarters in Washington, National Chairman Leonard Hall, participating in an office pool, scribbled down his guess on Ike's electoral total: 375. And at Democratic headquarters a weary staffer said sadly: "There is a kind of lull in the campaign...
...program for the defense of academic freedom now seems clearer than at any time in the recent past. No longer need attention focus so exclusively on court cases, although cases still in progress must be fought vigorously and new victims defended. But now, while there is a lull, for whatever reason, in the attack on academic freedom, major attention should be turned to securing the repeal and withdrawal of restrictive statutes and regulations, the cloak of due process under which the attackers of academic freedom operate. The best way to achieve this would seem to be for liberals to develop...
...inside the nation's homes, offices and bars. Between acts the spotlight will fall on the sideshows: Will Rogers Jr., Arlene Francis, Dorothy Kilgallen, George Gallup, Dave Garroway et al. Walt Kelly's Pogo, campaigning for President (on NBC) with "four buckets of cigar smoke," hopes to "lull the regular parties into a false sense of security by repeated attempts to clarify the issues...
...life of 13th century Blessed Raymund Lull, who made it his life work to convert the Moors, was a failure in almost everything he undertook, but his vision was so bright and his energy so great that he never seemed to notice the defeats and frustrations that would have submerged an ordinary man. Fifth century Daniel the Stylite lived atop a pillar near the Bos-phorus for 33 years, and, like his famed preceptor Simeon, controlled with his prestige the emperors and patriarchs in the world below...