Word: lulls
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After a second period lull, Deacon Tom Lamb went for two touchdowns in the second half, one on a 45-yard gallop off right tackle and the other a one-yard. plunge, Two Kirkland extra points were blocked and the other zoomed wide...
...that it is the prelude to war. These 14 men in the Kremlin, who rule with despotic power the vast populations and territories of which they are the masters, are very capable and well informed. If their minds were set on war I cannot believe that they would not lull the easygoing democracies into a false sense of security. Hitler was a master of this, and always before or during some act of aggression he uttered soothing words or made non-aggression pacts. Therefore, while I cannot exclude the danger of war, I do not think the violent abuse which...
Damage ran into millions of dollars. Two radio towers were toppled at Fort Lauderdale (where, in the lull of the eye's passing over, residents were amazed to hear birds singing). Hundreds of beach cabanas were blown away, and many a majestic palm was blown down along Palm Beach's famed millionaires' row and at Miami's Hialeah race track. In the 'Glades farmland, citrus, ramie, bean and tomato crops were badly whipped...
Guerrilla warfare in Greece's north continued. A high-ranking U.S. officer in Greece last week declared that there was merely a lull in the fighting. Terror still littered the countryside: last week, a picture from Yanina, in Epirus, showed two guerrillas identifying the severed heads of fellow guerrillas recently killed near the Albanian frontier. One of Greece's gravest shortages being transportation, the bodies were left behind...
...Visiting hunters, Earle among them . . . don fantastic costumes intended to lull the bustard into believing that nothing more harmful than a peasant is in the neighborhood. . . . Now a peasant, when he would like a bite of bustard on a Sunday, goes into a field, grabs one by the tail, wrings its neck and that's all there is to it. They don't go out as if they were on their way to a fancy-dress ball." The Democratic Philadelphia Record answered in an editorial gloweringly entitled: "Speaking of Bustards...