Word: dull
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...halfhearted, stop-and-go manner in which they had negotiated. Last week after urgent personal requests from the President that they get down to serious negotiating, labor and management met over a coffee table in Pittsburgh's Penn-Sheraton Hotel. The session followed the same pattern of dull do-nothing that had characterized all the previous negotiations. U.S. Steel Chairman Roger Blough pointed to the management's offer of a "15? wage package," stuck by his demands for revision in union work rules (TIME, Oct. 12). United Steelworkers Union President David McDonald, who had walked...
...matter what happens, it won't be a dull weekend for the Crimson skippers. And stiff competition may even bring out the club's best showing...
Measured by the tastes and habits of the ordinary newspaper reader, the Wall Street Journal is agonizingly dull. For determinedly conservative makeup, the Journal's front page-six solid columns of type unrelieved by a picture-has no rival among U.S. metropolitan dailies. Its stories can hardly be called sensational: a looming shortage in milk bottles, potholes in the Inter-American Highway, a slump in the price of dried fruit, a rise in individual assets-to cite but a few of the subjects that rated Page One play last week...
...grind? Want to live a life of romance and adventure? We offer you Escape!" With these words, candidates were welcomed into the CRIMSON Newsroom for the opening meeting of the Crime's first competition of the year. Escape was the keynote, Crimeds told of escape from angry deans, the dull academic routine, and even from Harvard itself. Beer cans hissed and the AP ticker tapped out "pockatapockatapockata" while candidates chortled in festive glee...
Stocky (5 ft. 6 in.), with a simian gait, a large, handsome head and a loud, clear voice that was usually raised in argument, Orde Wingate saw himself eternally at war with "the tyranny of the dull mind," i.e., nine-tenths of his immediate military superiors and nearly all army regulations. When he was passed over for an appointment to the Staff College, Wingate strode to a Yorkshire hilltop where General Sir Cyril Deverell, the Chief of the Imperial General Staff, stood in the midst of his aides, watching maneuvers. Wingate saluted and gave the astounded general a severe talking...