Word: lullingly
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...roly-poly George Edward Allen return to Washington after five weeks in the hospital and in Atlantic City. Harry Truman was mighty glad; there was no one he would rather have around than George. Congress was gone and there would be a lull, but he needed all the help, advice and laughs he could get. So it was good to have George back with the rest of the "gang...
Lieut. Cowin fell, fatally wounded. Under Major Fred. J. Freese, a U.S. Army Special Service officer, the marines dug in for an all-day fight. But, after four hours, they had run out of mortar shells. Major Freese seized on a lull, ordered his men to make a break. In Peiping that night the weary detachment completed its mission. Its casualties: three killed, twelve wounded...
...last week's lull from strikes, many an American hoped that now was the time when smart unionists would do some soul-searching and long-range planning for peace. Their hopes were vain...
This double dose of soothing syrup is intended to lull certain suspicions which France has about its Communist Party. A Frenchman who considers joining it or following it asks himself whether it is a French party, an international party or a Russian party. Charles de Gaulle engraved this doubt on French minds when he gave it as a reason for refusing to give the Communists the ministries of Foreign Affairs, War or Interior (police). The French remember, too, the Communist record between the 1939 Hitler-Stalin pact and the German attack on Russia. Thorez himself symbolized that record by deserting...
...word report, released after three weeks of rigidly secret investigation, it: 1) bluntly accused three Canadians and one British subject of giving Government secrets to Russia; 2) unfolded the details of Russian espionage in Canada. In an Allied world already jittery over Russia, the report was not calculated to lull suspicions and fears. Said the report...