Word: bland
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...would drive his steam roller around to his shack, and putter about, oiling and cleaning it. Sometimes at work Giuseppe would set the huge machine rolling and get down in the road to stare at it as it marched on alone, slowly and steadily crushing the gravel beneath its bland power...
Andrei Vishinsky, at his nastiest, never insulted us as did Mr. Ratner with the bland pronouncement that "radio's made in the image of the American people," whose intellectual horizons are bounded by "comic books, Betty Grable . . . broad comedy and simple drama...
...Though his political opponents glibly refer to him as a "Boston Club man," he is not a member of that proud and rigid club. Reform movements used to start in the Boston Club; generally they amounted to no more than a delicate finger-pointing at the city's bland face of corruption. The movement to which Chep belongs has been more effective...
California's Governor Earl Warren, a man with a ruggedly blond face, a ruggedly bland manner and a terrific popularity in his home state, became the third avowed candidate for the Republican presidential nomination...
...deputies of the Foreign Ministers last week chewed a tired cud of procedural issues. Their sessions were placid enough, and utterly unproductive. The biggest question before them was whether the Austrian treaty could be put ahead of the German. The bland and affable Russian delegate, A. A. Smirnov, said...