Word: dulled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this was '48. In its first week, some of the world's people managed to face the new year gaily, many with dull resignation, most in doubt. But they all had one fervent, minimum hope: that this would be a better year than the one just gone...
...rarest spectacle, has been somewhat simplified for the screen by Adapters Stefan Zweig and Jules Romains. In reviving Jonson in any form they have had to combat what T. S. Eliot calls a "most perfect conspiracy of approval." In the general willingness to grant Jonson all manner of dull virtues, it has been generally overlooked that (in Volpone especially) he abounds in the lively vice of showmanship. This film exaggerates that vice. The result is magnificent mummery, set and played with tremendous style...
...many a layman it sounded like just another bankers' argument, dull and muddy with economists' gobbledygook. But as a handful of top U.S. bankers carried it on before three congressional committees last week, the argument boiled down to one simple, understandable question: How can the U.S. curb inflation without bringing on a slump? But there were no simple answers to this simple question...
...from the ranks of the Harvard Youth for Democracy, cried their wares from the Yard's many gates with unexpected success, as almost 400 copies of the infant publication were sold. Such inspired pitchmen as Jean Lo Corbeiller '48 loudly touted the sheet for browsing purposes "in that next dull class of yours...
...Nicolson, no poet himself, suggests that the main reason why poets are considered madder than other people is that they like to display their eccentricities: "All writers, and especially all poets, feel it dull to be thought completely normal...