Word: dulled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...both. Somehow he manages to give a fairly coherent idea of what it is like to be an R.A.F. pursuit pilot, though hampered by a ragged plot and the fact that, whenever a convenient shell crater or ditch appears, someone is sure to pop into it for a long, dull, heart-to-heart talk...
...Remarkable Andrew" is far from trite, but equally dull. Its rather weird plot concerns the plight of Andrew Long, a strait-laced city employee who is framed by crooked politicians. With the unseen help of the ghost of his namesake Andy Jackson (not to mention the spirits of Washington, Marshall, Jefferson, Franklin, etc.) Andrew Long finally manages to extricate himself. But for a while in the picture even his friends wonder a bit when they observe him talking to people they can't see. Meanwhile the audience is just as baffled by the superfluity of ghosts whose figures they...
...thing was starkly apparent to newsmen in Washington. Optimism, much of which had emanated from the White House (whether or not it was intended), began to fade early in the week, as even dull minds began to suspect the phony reports from Cairo and London about the fighting in the desert. When Mr. Churchill arrived, people said: "We didn't think it was that...
...Quartermaster Training Regiment were sleeping soundly. A soft north-northeast breeze fanned the damp air; the lonely flashlight of a patrolling officer threaded the dark Virginia night; somewhere a mongrel pup howled plaintively. Suddenly came the long, heart-chilling shriek of dive-bombers, the rattle of machine guns, the dull, stomach-curdling thud of high explosives. Over the camp rolled clouds of black, evil-smelling smoke. Up went a cry: "Gas! Gas! Gaaaasss!" Out of their tiny olive-green tents tumbled soldiers, stuffing heads into gas masks, grabbing at pants...
...pleasantest days of soliciting in the history of that arduous activity was made the more enjoyable yesterday by a continual exhibition of shapely and not-so-shapely feminine limbs which made any session at the Revere Beach funhouse look dull by comparison...