Word: dull
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...begins one of the most famous of modern ghost stories. "Midnight struck," as Bosco himself later told it, "and I then heard a dull, rolling sound from the end of the passage . . . While the noise came nearer the dormitory, the walls, ceiling and floor of the passage re-echoed and trembled behind it ... The students in the dormitory awoke, but none of them spoke . . . Then the door opened violently of its own accord without anybody seeing anything except a dim light of changing color that seemed to control the sound . . . Then a voice was clearly heard. 'Bosco, Bosco, Bosco...
...Europeans James told of two elegantly hard-up Continental worldlings-a baroness and her brother-who descend in a fortune-seeking mood on their rich, staid, starched Boston kinfolk. Light, bright, "easy" James, the book is less a comedy of intrigue than of attitudes, of dull innocents shocked by Europe and gay intriguers stupefied by Boston...
...what we have been talking about for a year. If we surrendered to this temptation, we would probably say something about the need for imagination (and realism) in foreign policy, boldness (and gradualism) in domestic policy, and House-ification (and money) in University policy. But that would be dull to write, and certainly worse than dull to read. Either you have seen it before--in which case it would be repetition--or else you haven't--and are certainly not interested now. So we resist the temptation to play the record again--and instead make a stab at cutting...
...what we have been talking about for a year. If we surrendered to this temptation, we would probably say something about the need for imagination (and realism) in foreign policy, boldness (and gradualism) in domestic policy, and House-ification (and money) in University policy. But that would be dull to write, and certainly worse than dull to read. Either you have seen it before--in which case it would be repetition--or else you haven't--and are certainly not interested now. So we resist the temptation to play the record again--and instead make a stab at cutting...
...their doors swinging open in the wind; thin, underfed cattle munching on de-spined prickly-pear cactus. As he went from farm to farm, Ike touched the weak, thin dust, crackled the dry tumbleweed between his fingers, examined with a knowing farmer's hands the bony backs and dull coats of underfed steers...