Word: lullingly
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West Berlin's Socialist Telegraf last week reported that state-run nurseries in Germany's Soviet zone have been ordered to lull their tots to sleep with a new nursery rhyme...
...message, in a lull in a fierce battle for Guadalcanal's Henderson Field: "Dead Japanese present a disposal problem...
Besides hunting Chinese Reds and Korean snails, Buster serves as adviser to his outfit on all matters zoological. He has taught them to recognise a poisonous snake or two, and during the pre-battle lull he gave them the word on swimming in the Han: little danger of schistosomiasis because oncomelania prefer narrow, shaded streams. A good chance of picking up paragonimiasis because the broad, open river might have Paragonimus westermani...
...jobs in Tokyo, he said to Van Fleet: "I won't get in your hair, Van." But Van Fleet is carrying on Ridgway's strategy-to save the maximum allied lives by maneuver, to kill the maximum enemy troops by massed firepower. Last week, in the lull that followed the abortive and costly first phase of the enemy offensive, he told his troops that they had won a "great victory." But he warned them that the Communists could still strike another hard blow...
...Korea last week, the weather was warm, the sky was blue, the fields were sprouting fresh green. During the lull in the fighting, G.I. laundry hung on the barrels of tank guns; some soldiers went swimming in the Han. In spite of their high spirits and their confidence in themselves and their commander, the troops were homesick. Despite his optimism, the Eighth Army's Commander Van Fleet could not promise them a decisive victory that would send them home soon-not until someone persuaded Washington, as he had persuaded the Greeks, to seize the initiative, to take the offensive...