Word: lullingly
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After a brief lull in the fierce attack, the Crimson once again loaded its repeating rifle. Before Millner had time to recover, the Crimson scored three more goals in the final three minutes of the game...
JAMES TAYLOR: NEVER DIE YOUNG (Columbia). His best album in a decade. The music may lull, but just to ease the way for some lacerating lyrics on the ironies and intricacies of love...
Robert Dole called it a "man-to-man" talk, but it looked and sounded more like a tirade. During a lull in the Senate contra-aid debate, the Republican leader angrily strode up to the rostrum where George Bush was presiding, pounded on the desk and waved a Bush campaign press release in the Vice President's face. For five minutes he took his rival for the Republican presidential nomination to task for practicing what he called "low-down, nasty, mean politics...
While a person's house is a nest egg, since it can be borrowed against or sold, the huge appreciation of real estate values in the 1970s tended to lull U.S. homeowners into the belief that they did not need financial savings as well. The roaring bull market of the 1980s has also contributed to that attitude by creating a so-called wealth effect in which stockholders feel rich on paper. The catch is that home values and stock prices can fluctuate, often cruelly, even though their growth seems so dependable during some periods. Says John Godfrey, chief economist...
...David Beckwith, who had nicknames for everyone in the bureau, dubbed him "Stormy." Whenever Cloud's demands for precision and thoroughness were not met, says Administrative Assistant Katharine McNevin, "you could hear him six miles before you saw him." Since his return to TIME, however, there has been a lull in the storm. Though less explosive, he still has no patience for journalistic cant. So every cloud does have its silver lining...