Word: dulled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...finding WAAC life dull, she had posed as a stranded showgirl and landed a job in the Casino's chorus. Four days later she had been upped to "Samoan Love Dancer" (the drummer beat a tomtom while she wiggled in a lei) and stripteaser (blue lights followed her around the stage as she teased off a gown borrowed from Mrs. DeCenzie). By Nov. 28 WAAC authorities had discovered where she was and quietly hauled her back to Fort Des Moines. Last week the news leaked and reporters persuaded the Fort's genial commandant, Colonel John A. Hoag...
...electroplating been done on such an enormous production scale. Some single tinning lines turn out a continuous sheet three-feet wide, passed through a furnace at 1,300 feet per minute-enough to cover an entire football field every 18 minutes. But the plated coating is not perfect. Dull grey, its porosity and corrosion resistance are not satisfactory. To complete the process it is necessary to remelt the thin skin of tin momentarily, so that it renews to make a smoother, tougher surface...
...their ammunition stores and the concrete artillery emplacements. The great naval arsenal near the harbor mouth blew up before the Germans could reach it. At the docksides and yards smoke billowed from burning fuel stores. When dawn broke, Toulon harbor lay ruined, cluttered with sunken hulks wracked intermittently by dull explosions...
...Great Big Doorstep is good quality but very short weight. Its jokes are funny but few, its characters likable but often dull. Its counterpart is Tobacco Road, but The Great Big Doorstep is much less racy and much less real. More than a doorstep, it needs some kind of backlog...
...What was funny soldier humor before is not so funny now. . . . From time to time . . . soldiers are used for 'interview' purposes, when, as a matter of fact, they are used as mere stooges . . . and made, unwittingly, to appear as somewhat stupid and dull, when, as a matter of fact, in their line of business, they are far from it. Other times, the soldier's normal interest in 'girls' is emphasized and stretched to an unwholesome and unwarranted degree...