Word: lullingly
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...next day, they went on to place second to M.I.T. in a hexagonal meet for the Greater Boston Dinghy Trophy. These races were followed by a slight lull in winning activity, the sailors dropping to a fourth place out of eight in the Sharpe trophy competition at Providence. M.I.T. again plowed home with a first, followed by Brown and Yale...
...arguments that the financial security brought by compulsory subscription would lull the News into "a non-competitive mediocrity" lacking the "pressure and incentive" to improve the paper, we can reply that so long as Radcliffe girls road the Harvard daily we will not lack the necessary competitive spirit to constantly improve the News. Far from turning future editors into complacent automations, the financial security would give the News its much needed opportunity to expand to six pages, to enlarge its staff, to improve its working quarters and conditions, and to produce a truly comprehensive Radcliffe News. The past two years...
Next day in Kashmir, fighting between pro-Pakistan tribesmen and Kashmiri defense forces broke out again after a lull. In 48 hours, nearly 2,000 were killed...
...executive council was as lifeless as a fried clam. But the A.F.L. elders bestirred themselves enough to issue a chesty proclamation. With the Taft-Hartley Act in effect, they declared, it is "beyond reason and common sense" to expect industrial peace to continue. "America is now experiencing a lull before the storm. When present collective bargaining contracts expire, the most difficult period in the history of labor relations in this country threatens to ensue." Whether this was an honest warning to industry or mostly propaganda for bargaining purposes, only the elders of Big Labor knew...
Last week, during a lull in the Palestine fighting, an armored bus under heavy escort headed south from Jerusalem on a mournful errand; it carried the mothers & fathers of the 35 dead to their funeral. The parents stood dry-eyed and solemn as their sons were buried in a common grave on a hillside overlooking the Valley of Fertility. At dawn next day, the uneasy quiet was broken...