Word: lullingly
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...Lull. When the Japanese made a move to throw in the towel, U.S. land forces were engaged in no major operations. In northeast Luzon, the 38th ("Cyclone") Division was raising the dust with its mop-up of trapped Japs, taking casualties as' well as inflicting them. In the Marianas, three companies of marines waged miniature amphibious war, seized five islets north of Saipan, lost...
Bacchic Rout. Toward 4 o'clock in the morning the rioting subsided. But the lull was illusory. By early afternoon of V-E day a bacchic rout of men, women and even children reeled down Barrington, Hollis and, Granville Streets smashing more windows and sacking more stores. Said one elderly woman: "I never had so much fun in my life...
...suddenly the four-months' lull on his "forgotten front" was over, the fight was on. The roads, towns, supply depots of his natural fortress were being blasted from the air. In the British sector 3.400 high-explosive bombs. 180,000 fragmentation bombs, rained on his troops. Allied flame-throwing tanks moved...
...still fighting fiercely at Patras, chief port of Western Greece. It was believed to control most of Greece. ELAS' withdrawal from Athens looked more & more like a strategic retreat. Liberated Athens looked like a Government-controlled island in a sea of ELAS hostility. There was a lull. But dirty weather might blow up again at any moment...
...from the sea, which may rise 20 feet, the disk roars on at 10 to 50 m.p.h. along the path of least resistance, i.e., in the direction of lowest pressure. In the path over which a northbound vortex passes, the storm first blows from the east, offers a brief lull at its 8-to-10-mile eye, then hits from the west. Average life of a hurricane is nine days...