Word: lullingly
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...During a lull in Senate debate Thursday night, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.) introduced a resolution congratulating Roger Clemens for his performance that thrust the righthander into baseball lore...
Telexes were down. The lights in the hotel were out. Newspaper correspondents, like Edward Schumacher of the New York Times and G. Jefferson Price III of the Baltimore Sun, dictated a few paragraphs over ABC's open line during a lull in the barrage. Their reports, taped by ABC, were then passed on to their papers...
South African divestment activism might be at a temporary lull at Harvard, but at other campuses across the country, sparks continue to fly during the cold winter months...
...first, the two had celebrated their return to the yacht with a bottle of Russian vodka and a case of Anchor Steam beer, but by the third night they knew they had to escape. "Outside, it was a scene from Apocalypse Now," recalled McSeveney. During a lull in the firing, they started the engine and slowly found their way to open sea through the darkness, past a capsized freighter and a patrol boat loaded with armed men. When they finally sighted Djibouti 30 hours later, they both cried, "Thank you, Lord!" at the top of their voices...
Happily, all of that furious and frantic preparation, from Edisto, S.C., to Eastport, Me., turned out to be a storm before a comparative lull. After G hour had come and gone, first on the barrier islands off North Carolina and last in upper New England, all of what the newspaper people call aftermath reports had a wonderful quality about them. They all more or less said whew! To be sure, Gloria's pummeling, up-the-coastline meander left a wake of damage and sorrow. Seven deaths could be traced to the storm. At least half a million people were forced...