Word: lullingly
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Main Course: Words. At the Conrad Hilton Hotel, 25 C.I.O. pickets barked and yelped as Wilson arrived. They were parading three dogs (hired from a pet shop for $25). At the scheduled dinner hour, Wilson was still hard at work revising his speech; to lull the packed crowd of Republicans, the organist played How Much Is That Doggie in the Window...
...Communists have won in Indo-China, and it is time we woke up . . . Why does our Government lull us with lowered taxes, business-as-usual talk? What we need is to arm and to make ready. We should tax till it hurts. Develop our military. Enact the universal military service legislation. President Eisenhower is a great military leader. What is stopping him from advising Congress and the people of the danger and of the necessary steps to be taken...
...essence of the Soviet's strategy for world conquest," he said flatly, "is to lull Americans into a sleep of death by talking peace until the Soviet Union possesses enough hydrogen bombs and intercontinental bombers to pulverize the airfields and productive centers of the United States by a sneak attack . . . The Soviet Union will not stop of its own volition. It must be stopped...
...another when the effect of one begins to pale. Though amphetamine is not technically an addicting drug, it is habit-forming. Neurotics have a vicious-circle routine: goof balls to wake them up and keep them going through the day, then barbiturates to still the jags and jitters and lull them to sleep. Over-the-road truck drivers take amphetamine to keep awake, and highway authorities suspect that many unexplained accidents result from the hallucinations which it causes in some subjects. Dieters sometimes take amphetamine to cut their appetite, but most doctors consider this dangerous. Convicts used to chew...
...Dienbienphu. Narrow-eyed with loss of sleep, the French sentries peered through the monsoon haze towards the Communist trenches less than roo yards away. All was quiet, and the tired 10,000-man garrison hoped for a fair night's rest. At GHQ in Hanoi, an officer reported: "Lull at Dienbienphu...