Word: lulls
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Luftwaffe's front-line role has been intensified beyond anything seen in previous German campaigns. Colonel General Wolfram von Richthofen (cousin of Germany's great World War I ace), who had the job of fitting the Luftwaffe to Mot pulk, devised his plan during the spring lull. Chief change: the number of dive-bombers on a given front has been tripled, and even quadrupled, to hurl the maximum weight from the air at Red troops, artillery and tanks...
...Though a lull continued in the main battle for Egypt, British ground and air patrols hammered relentlessly at the hooked, 55-mile line west of El Alamein, where Marshal Erwin Rommel's German Africa Corps was stalled within 65 miles of the Alexandria Naval Base...
Elsewhere there was little change in the great struggle for the control of East Asia and the western Pacific ocean and the general lull, which has prevailed since the Japanese conquered Burma, continued...
Father Chase, once a seafaring man, used to lull little Ilka asleep with gamy sea chanteys. So young Ilka was hurried off to the Convent of the Holy Child Jesus where, it was hoped, the sisters might teach her manners. They also taught her "a very smooth game of pool." One of the Convent's buildings, the former residence of Financier Thomas Fortune Ryan, had contained a pool table which "the dear Sisters had seen no reason for removing." Says Author Chase: "It was a pretty sight to see Mother Mary Agnes, who shot a mean ball, leaning backward...
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...