Word: dulled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Life has never a dull moment for the Marines on Guadalcanal, site of the important Solomons air base that was wrested from the Japanese a month ago. If the enemy is not attacking, the Marines...
Forget the plot; it is simple but manages to dull a potentially A-1 musical. If Crosby were left to his singing, and Astaire to his dancing, the show would move faster. The one spark of originality, a holiday inn (Berlin's contribution we are told), was snowed under by a standardized development leading to the inevitable clinch...
Criticism Wanted. Winston Churchill had an excuse for not shining. Within a week he had to make two other speeches, on the Duke of Kent's death and on India. But he was so dull that many M.P.s walked out on him. What followed his dullness was even more surprising. After his speech it had been planned to give the Prime Minister's critics their first full-dress chance in nine weeks to hold a two-day debate on the war. But when Churchill finished and left the House, all but half a dozen members followed...
Those who had not been through it before thought that was all, but it wasn't. Now, last of all, came the sound, no shriek of the bomb falling, but the sudden, shocking, dull, booming blast of the explosion...
...Sunday of Sept. 3, 1939, when Britain entered another state of war against Germany, Dr. Quo Taichi, Chinese Ambassador to London, took a late afternoon stroll in his garden. He looked up into the dull grey skies. "Soon," said he, "the air is going to be black with pigeons coming home to roost." Last week in Chungking, Dr. Quo, now chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Supreme National Defense Council, looked again into the future. Not all the pigeons of past errors had yet come home. But there had been enough to convince Dr. Quo of one thing...