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Word: blanded (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...urged him to choose Warren as a means of breaking his grip on California politics. In any case, Warren met basic requirements. He was a Republican and his philosophy and common sense "pleased" Eisenhower. Later, dismayed that Warren turned out to be a controversial participant rather than a bland umpire, Ike described the selection as "the biggest damn fool mistake I ever made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: Earl Warren's Way: Is It Fair? | 7/22/1974 | See Source »

Bobby Blue Bland is a middle-aged veteran electric bluesman whose music veers toward the syrupy at times; he's no B.B. King, but he should still give a good show. At Paul's Mall in Boston, through Sunday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MUSIC | 7/19/1974 | See Source »

Isis, an eight-piece all-woman band is at Paul's Mall today followed by the fantastic Bobby Blue Bland from Wednesday to Sunday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MUSIC | 7/16/1974 | See Source »

...evidence that would be presented to them that day by Doar or, less frequently, Minority Counsel Albert Jenner. After directing the members to the proper page, Doar would begin reading, often referring to the documentary records, which were also in the notebooks. His style of presentation was intentionally bland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Behind Judiciary's Closed Doors | 7/1/1974 | See Source »

...actors do. There is only one stridently monotonous note in Roberta Maxwell's voice box. Her Juliet is a fishwife haggling unsuccessfully over a flounder rather than a young girl losing the world and her dear life for love. David Birney's Romeo is so limp and bland that it comes as a wondrous surprise that he has either the will or strength to climb to Juliet's balcony. Mercutio, that man from whom words flow like liquid light, emerges in David Rounds' rendering as little more than a stand-up nightclub comic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Bard Becalmed | 7/1/1974 | See Source »

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