Word: dulled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...only people really scared by sugar rationing are sugar producers. They fear that rationing may permanently dull the U.S. sweet tooth, seriously curtail the whole sugar industry. Sniffing this Cuba's powerful National Sugar Producers Association this week rushed over to the U.S Ambassador in Havana, asked him to stop the "U.S. campaign against sugar"—pronto...
Said the director of Commando operations, Lord Louis Mountbatten, who was cooking up vastly bigger projects in Washington: "A dull sort of raid...
This cinematic editorial is almost a blueprint of how to make an involved, dull, major aspect of World War II understandable and acceptable to moviegoers. Its scenes are a nicely edited compilation of captured German war films, Allied newsreels, and a few sequences shot by the Canadian Government film unit. The trick is to put the ingredients together to produce a picture like Food...
Debs are almost unifromly dull, but they do give parties. If you get invited to the Brattle Hall dances or the Eliot Hall dances, go; if the war hasn't put a halt to partics by next year, you'll get to know "the right girls" and be eligible for the stag lines...
Melvyn Douglas and Norma Shearer should have shared some of their fun with the audience. Dancing through the hearts, not to mention the pocketbooks, of the befuddled rich must have been a lot of fun; it couldn't have been as dull in life as it was in film. The featured stars didn't seem to have much trouble supporting themselves by entertaining society, but if their real life subsistence depends on the popularity of "We Were Dancing" Mr. Douglas better keep his next government job and Miss Shearer better get married...