Word: lullingly
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...lull clouds gathered. War machines were cranking up. Great events would come, must come, cataclysm on cataclysm. The nation's armies and armaments grew like thunderheads; some day soon they must burst with a great explosive flash...
This time the nation was better prepared. It started the war with an Army of 1,700,000, a Navy twice as big as in 1917, thousands of airplanes and more building. The lull could not last long. The nation knew, instinctively, that it would fight great battles before another anniversary passed...
Perhaps Berlin and Tokyo, hoping to lull Australia and the U.S., had planted the signs that the Japs were fattening and slowing. If so, they failed to lull General Douglas MacArthur...
...lull in fighting may have meant that porcine General Tomoyuki Yamashita was readying what he hopes will be the final offensive against Bataan's defenders. In any event, the front MacArthur left was quieter than the one he went...
...weekend lull was, perhaps, the last...