Word: bland
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Communist Boss Rakosi knew that the solution of these problems depended on Moscow, rather than Washington and London. Whenever the discussion touched Hungary's relations with Russia, middle-of-the-roader Nagy skirted skillfully, Communist Rakosi smiled a bland, gold-toothed smile...
Many editors are aware of W.N.U. chiefly as a Chicago editorial office whose boss, Farnham Dudgeon, helps them fill their papers. Dudgeon steers his writers away from controversy, into innocuous, bland writing that will offend neither Republican nor Democratic editors. For papers which get their W.N.U. service ready-printed, and thus have no advance editorial control over its content, he takes special pains to handle religion, politics, etc. so that nothing positive is said. The most popular feature is the "improved" Sunday-school lesson written by a Moody Institute...
...surrealists, who were more noisy than numerous, beauty was just the stuff that dreams are made of. Salvador Dali still led the somnambulating flock, with pictures brilliant, boneless and as bland as the fried eggs he claims to have seen while he was still in his mother's womb...
...Marshall, 44, a onetime pulp-fictionist whose earlier bedroom gambol, Kitty, was turned into a bland costume piece by Hollywood, wrote her first novel (30 pages) at seven. Its conclusion: "He gazed into her eyes and said, 'Will you marry me?' Only the stars heard the answer as they crept under the bushes." No such childish restraint mars Duchess Hotspur...
Alone, the United States grapples with the problem of the atomic bomb. Thus far our legislators, deaf to the warnings of the leading scientists, have shown no inclination to permit international control. They give tacit credence to Winston Churchill's bland assurance that "no one sleeps less soundly in his bed" because the United States possesses the atomic bomb. Serenely, they overlook the millions who scarcely touch their beds as they labor night and day to reduce the margin of military supremacy now possessed by this country. Nor will many men anywhere sleep soundly so long as this greatest...