Word: dulled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...submarine base, an endless string of dull-red buildings situated at the two-mile mark and previously objectionable only while it obscured the racing crews, was supposed to be the reason why the Government was ordering the race to be held elsewhere...
...first shock the dam guarding Colima's water supply collapsed, power lines went down, communications were cut off. Half the buildings in Colima crumbled into dust. The cathedral, rebuilt after the quake that struck Colima in 1932, was destroyed again. That night Colima was lighted up by the dull glow of forest fires, touched off by the city's charcoal-burning dumps when panic-stricken workers abandoned them...
...more American youths are confronted with the reality of the draft. To many who enjoyed playing with cannons and tanks when an open stretch of carpet was a Hungarian plain, a tin helmet will be the realization of a childhood dream, Many others, however, will find ground training dull, uninteresting, and not even valuable as a new experience. For these, the opportunity to join the Army Flying Corps is a challenge to courage and a possibility worth serious consideration...
...Great God Brown," written in 1925, was the first of pupil O'Neill's so-called psychological plays. It contrasts the dull but successful businessman with the brilliant, erratic artist. To help develop his characters, the playwright has them wear masks when they say conventional things, and take them off when they reveal their real thoughts...
...over-simplified in its development that you feel it never achieves full body. If Miss Treadwell had devoted more of her imagination to a revelation of the inner conflict between hope and defeat, and less to a chronicling of life in the San Joaquin (which can be pretty dull at times), she would have had a more successful time of it. There is a long list of excellent characterizations headed by that of the Italian truck-grower, Alan Reed. Despite its deficiencies in depth--by no means an uncommon failing of play writing in this confused age when most authors...