Word: lullingly
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...Marwan and his cell arrived in the afternoon of the first day's fighting, he says, but there was a lull while they waited for a counterattack that night. His job was to help defend the Abu Hanifa mosque, he says, and when combat resumed the next morning that's what he did. "We heard they were coming," he says of the Iraqi troops, "so we took our positions and started shooting at them from near the mosque. We used PKC [machine guns], RPGs, grenades, everything." The men of the 101st Airborne's MiTT have no reason to doubt...
...later innings.Despite the difficult defeat, Allard is hopeful that her team learned some valuable lessons from the outing.“First of all, we need to finish things,” Allard said. “We didn’t finish the game...We let the game lull, and we stopped. The last part of it was that we started to doubt ourselves in the bottom of the seventh. We had plenty of runs to work with, and we were plagued by a lot of doubt and we just could not finish it.”HARVARD...
...said that Harvard students had been muted in their response to Coca-Cola’s alleged abuses because of a “lull and loss of momentum” following a wave of student activism on campus...
Iraqis have that sinking feeling again. After the long lull around the Dec. 15 election, the terrorists have struck with deadly effect, killing nearly 150 people in two bombings on Thursday alone. For a few weeks, many Iraqis had felt able to lower their guard just a bit-parks, playgrounds, teahouses and restaurants were full of families eager to take advantage of the all-too-short winter. Now, those public places will again be deserted as people retreat fearfully to their homes...
...album chronicles a battle between Volcano!’s many explosive elements. “Fire Fire” catches the band at a lull, with carefully articulated guitar and foot-tapping drum rhythms working towards a flurry into post-hardcore virtuosity reminiscent of a relaxed Fugazi. That is, until the vocals jump back in halfway through and take the entire song down a deranged stream of consciousness (including sing-spat references to “the nape of my neck” and “my nipple and breast”) ending in yet another clash between...