Word: lullingly
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Reischauer also believed that there may be a lull in activity in Indochina, due to the conference at Geneva. "It would be bad propaganda-wise, for the Communists to continue fighting while their delegates are sitting at a conference table," he said...
Dienbienphu's commander, General Christian de Castries, took advantage of the lull to resurvey his battered position, and he decided that a couple of northwestern outposts were too exposed. He therefore abandoned these outposts under sharp Red fire and realigned most of his 12,000-man force inside one bristling, unbroken perimeter some 1 ½ miles in diameter, leaving only one strong point isolated three miles to the south. De Castries stiffened the new perimeter with fresh, air-dropped reinforcements-infantry volunteers with only a few hours' parachute instruction and no practice-and built up his ammunition stocks...
French intelligence reported that Giap was also using the lull to bring up heavy reinforcements and supplies and to redraw his battle lines-nearer and nearer the fortress...
Yesterday's robbery followed a month-long lull in the robber's activities around the University. Toohy said last month during this lull that the thief was scared, but probably would return because of "unusual success" in his past thefts. There is little evidence concerning the identity of the criminal, he added...
...said that Chrysler's 1954 models were not selling as well as expected. But Ford and General Motors still roared ahead, and total auto production jumped 66% from the previous week. Railroad traffic was still dropping and steel production was rising more slowly than expected after the holiday lull. Credit was still easing, and in Manhattan interest rates on commercial loans dropped to the lowest point (2 1/8) in three years. However, consumers showed no signs of easing up their big buying. Department store sales were climbing; they edged up 1% over the same week a year...