Word: lullingly
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Since the lull on the battlefield, the Red negotiators have been wholly intractable. The U.N. has no policy except to try to wear down the Reds at the conference table. In the game of waiting, the U.N. is up against the champs. Once, the U.N. had the advantage in Korea; now it has got into a contest in which the advantage is with the enemy...
When the armies of the U.N. and the Communists were settled down in the limited Korean lull last fall, U.S. General James A. Van Fleet was worried about stagnation's effect on his Eighth Army. "A 'sitdown' army is subject to collapse at the first sign of an enemy effort," he said then. "An army that stops to tie its shoestrings seldom regains the initiative...
Last week, six months of lull later, General Van Fleet gave a fresh report on the conditions of his forces. The Eighth Army today, said he, is stronger in every way than at any time during the last 21 months. "The United Nations forces," he added, "now are in a position where nothing the enemy can bring into Korea can seriously hurt...
...Missing Billions. The stormy weather in which the, Maritime Board found itself was not the fault of its present boss, Vice Admiral (ret.) Edward Lull Cochrane. Boss of the Navy's Bureau of Ships during World War II and a crack naval architect, Cochrane became head of the Federal Maritime Board in 1950, when it was set up within the Commerce Department to replace the old Maritime Commission. He has been trying diligently to unscramble its problems ever since...
...varsity swimmers, undergoing the lull before the liquidation, have a breather with Columbia tonight, a week before the annual sacrifice to Yale. The Lion meet is scheduled for 8 p.m. at the Indoor Athletic Building...