Word: dulled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week along the Jersey coast the rain fell and the grey Atlantic heaved in a 15-ft. swell. But some freighter crews, some fishermen, rolling under bare steerage way, saw a sight that made them forget the dull, grey weather. They heard the thunder of engines, saw the mist ripped open by a trim, broad bow, saw a tiny boat skim by, skittering off the tops of waves, pelting through others in a burst of spindrift. On her bridge they caught a quick glimpse of hooded men, goggled, drenched with spray, hanging on behind a tiny windshield...
...pain. Once a German airman flew over Oldharn Village and dropped a rack of bombs. One fell within 40 yards of where Chamberlain lay and the man who had said "I think it is peace in our time" shuddered. When the end was near they gave him drugs to dull the pain. Later he sank into a coma. After a while he died...
...will place the name of Switzerland, which for months has allowed air violations by enemy aircraft, side by side with that of our detested enemy. The fate of Greece and Turkey already is sealed, and so is the fate of the little mercantile, intellectually dull, anti-Italian and anti-German Swiss...
...Alaska. For Vox Pop Moran attempted to demonstrate that people could lose their inhibitions by throwing eggs into electric fans. Done up in a shower cap with windshield wiper, rubber gloves and raincoat, Moran explained his theory of release, let fly at an electric fan. There was a dull plop. The man at the fan had neglected to turn...
...fusty workrooms of the Smithsonian Institution last week reposed some 50 hard little balls, one-half inch to one inch in diameter. To a layman's eye they looked like dull, dirty grey or yellowish grey pebbles. Actually they are pearls-and, as pearls go, huge. Their value as jewels is zero, but they are precious to science. They are fossil pearls...