Word: lulls
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This kind of dry riposte is the Brinkley trademark. Faced with the task of making news during a lull in last month's Democratic Convention, Brinkley drolly noted the "rampant inactivity on the floor." The convention was the 14th that he has covered since 1956, when he and Chet Huntley launched their evening news program. Before long, an estimated 20 million people were watching Huntley-Brinkley and their innovative presentation. Recalls Brinkley: "We sort of set the form of TV news as it persists to this day. A story or two, or three; somebody setting them up and then...
...morning, the magazine Track and Field News organized a race for American tourists on a 3 ½ -mile course along the river. I wanted to try, carrying my small American flag on a stick, like a baton, so that during the slightest lull in conversations in years to come, I could say, "Ahem, during the Moscow Olympics in '80, I want you to know that ... etc., etc." I did some jogging to prepare, getting up to run when the sun came through the lace curtains of my room in the Hotel Ukraine. Summer sunrise is very early in these...
Usually Mata teaches classes on the spiritual role of the individual and the world as well as on meditation and holistic healing, but the foundation is currently in "a transitional phase" and is planning on relocating within a month or two, so things are at a lull. Most of the people who find out about the group and show up are already "Initiates of the Hierarchy," Mata says. "I don't blow their minds and tell them who they were in previous lives, but I may tell the class as a whole that everyone here is an Initiate...
...well-concealed fact: military training for a rescue had begun last November, shortly after militant students took over the embassy. Repeated claims by various security experts at the Pentagon, State Department and White House that a mission to free the hostages was virtually impossible were actually designed to lull the captors into believing that no such effort would be mounted. This attempt to protect the possibility of surprise was about the mission's only success...
After the first period, which ended with the Islanders ahead 1-0 on a rebound goal by Bryan Trottier during a momentary lull in hostilities, only three minor penalties were called and the teams "settled down" to play hockey...