Word: blanding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...play wanders through a whole drawing-room world of deception and self-deception, of complacent male stupidity and bland female betrayal. The wit less dazzles than disconcerts, as in the Maugham test of true love: "Could you use his toothbrush?" But The Constant Wife, in any case, is less a triumph of wit than of tone...
Jessup's bland effort to show that he and others never entertained the idea of recognizing Red China is a continuation of a monumental State Department project: an attempt to rewrite the department's private history so that it will read better in the light of current events. This effort, undoubtedly influenced by the climate of McCarthyism and the 1952 election, would be hazardous at any time; it is worse than that today, when the U.S. should be looking to the future...
...Barnes was a millionaire, thanks to his development of a bland antiseptic which he named Argyrol. Albert Barnes thereupon went looking for something else worth fighting...
...Bland Reminder. Through all the turmoil, Washington blandly reminded everyone that some confusion was bound to occur as CMP got under way. However, the news is so bad that a few steelmen think the way out is to bring every industry under CMP, and have complete allocations. The big majority, like Bethlehem's Grace, think that CMP should control only the steel for direct arms output. The rest should be left free...
When questioned last week, they pitched on a bland, evangelistic tone, something like devotees of yoga telling a police judge why they had assumed the Lotus Position on a public street. Maceo & Co., Galveston's biggest gamblers, voluntarily shut the town down. And 15 of its 16 partners (some of whom belong to the chamber of commerce) refused to talk for fear of selfincrimination. But Top Partner Sam Serio, when promised immunity, spent days proudly telling the committee all about their empire. Sam, it became quite obvious, had civic pride...