Word: lullingly
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...scale a cliff before reaching the rail line, but they blew a stretch of track into a mess of twisted steel. Purpose of the two attacks was not only to slow down the enemy's southward flow of war supplies, but to remind him that the lull in the Korean fighting was not by any means a total ceasefire. It was one more oddity of an odd war that after weeks of palaver over where a truce line should be, so much of last week's fighting should take place far beyond...
...next two years may be "the most critical in the history of our country," 15 members of the Business School faculty state in an article appearing in the January issue of the Harvard Business Review. The group warns the American people against "relaxing their guard" because of the lull in the Korean fighting...
Next day the Communists won one of their few victories: knocking down three early-model Australian Meteor jets and one U.S. F-80, and losing only two MIGs. Cease-fire and lull were two words that airmen on both sides could not hear and did not heed...
When the truce talks were resumed at Panmunjom in October, the fighting on the battlefront died down, but the lull was only momentary. Since then, small-scale but fierce battles have frequently broken out, and it has been the Reds who have done most of the attacking. Last week the Chinese were at it again...
Meanwhile, liquor dealers here, also, under a new Federal tax, reported yesterday that sales had fallen off slightly. There was a small rush to stock up before the tax went into effect yesterday, and owners attribute the lull to this rush. They expect business to be normal again by the Princeton weekend...