Word: lullingly
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Said Mitchell; "We were in constant squalls in the Gulf Stream. About 11 on the third night the glass dropped, and the weather took on all the characteristics of a tropical lull. We were still 165° on the compass when I looked up and saw a squall going all the way across the sky. It looked like a mushroom atom cloud, low with a black stem. The scene was eerie, with the moon not shining but giving just enough light to see. The sea was pretty big, and I said, 'This looks like the worst squall...
Principal aim of Soviet foreign policy is "to lull the vigilance of the free world and to weaken its readiness to defend itself. Above all, they want to smash first the mighty, protective shield of NATO and to drive the U.S. from Europe so that Europe will fall like a ripe fruit into the Soviet...
...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...
...editors of i.e. successfully broke the exam-period lull last Tuesday by publishing their personal critique of intellectual life at Harvard. Within 24 hours, the editors claim, over 1,000 copies of the Cambridge Review's sixth issue were grabbed off the newstands...
...party to their act, e.g., enforced spectator participation in the mass trials. By the end of 1951 and the beginning of 1952 the slaughter had reached such a pitch that the whole of China (as the Communists intended) was shaken to its roots with terror. There was a lull in the next two years, but last year the execution rate perceptibly increased again. The result has been a widespread recognition of the futility of resisting. Lo's liquidation campaign has been a ringing success...