Word: lullingly
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...collapse of world Communist power, establish a 'line' where we could find 'peace' and 'go home' . . . The Communists on any day, of course, may decide to cut their losses and give us an 'armistice' . . . but while [this] may mean a temporary lull in the dying, [itj will not mean peace, and we cannot go home . . . Lasting peace can come to Korea only with the collapse of armed Communist power in Asia...
Against Colgate, the varsity flashed some of the raw desire shown against Dartmouth, but its blinding early success served to lull...
Although there is no August lull for the candidates, there is one for the voter. While the nominees and their strategists are busily planning ways & means of getting the voter's attention and his vote, he can inspect the bare bones of the presidential campaign, the chief advantages that each party and its candidate have before the heavy speechmaking...
...Babble. All the ladies were forced to talk into a dismaying babble from the delegates. Minnesota's handsome, fair Mrs. Eugenie Anderson, U.S. Ambassador to Denmark, did achieve one moment of triumph. During a slight lull she cried that the Democrats had to go on demonstrating that basic policies were "made by our civilians . . . and . . . not ... by generals -in or out of uniform!" The crowd gave her a rousing hand...
London's Sunday Observer was set to add its voice to the critical clamor until the cold facts sunk in. Instead, the Observer confessed: "Everything . . . turns on the question; Was there, prior to the Yalu raids, a lull, a tacit cease-fire or near-cease-fire in Korea?" The Observer had done a little quick homework and was startled by its findings: "The plain fact-continuous and hence unreported-is that there has been a long-drawn battle which has been in progress almost since the start of the armistice talks." In this light, the Observer was alarmed...