Word: dulled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...said, of course, that he wanted to cooperate with Congress and hoped that Congress would return the compliment. But by his lack of specifics and the dull roundness of his words, he had virtually abdicated in Congress' favor...
Copy by the Clock. Every day Jones leaves his suburban home at precisely 8:15, reaches the News at 9:15, starts for the courts at 10. He does his crossword puzzle on the subway, finishes it during dull cases, if it's a tough one. His round is unfailing: Monday, Bow Street; Tuesday, Marlborough Street; Wednesday, Old Street; Thursday, Clerkenwell; Friday, Bow Street again. Jones leaves the court by 11:30, lunches at 12 exactly, begins to write at 12:30, is through at two. He is home again at 4:15 (having stopped for a drink...
Stewart plays a small-town boy who yearns to run away, explore far, exotic places and make his name in the big city. But family and dull duty hold him down to his father's piddling building & loan business. With a sense of deep frustration, he plunges into his small-town rut, half-angrily marries the girl (Donna Reed), battles the villainous local banker (Lionel Barrymore), befriends his fellow men, shoulders the whole town's troubles. When he winds up, despite all his do-gooding, broke and disgraced, he seriously considers throwing his "useless" life into the river...
...removes each bone button (to be replaced later), cuts and folds back the brain covering, the dura mater, then carefully slices through a measured section of the frontal lobes' white tissue. As the knife cuts the nerve fibers, the patient's tension visibly relaxes. He grows confused, dull, slow in speech, childish...
...Small Town he talks about a place called Roxborough ("I have employed only the flimsiest of disguises"). Like a surgeon-sociologist, Author Hicks takes Roxborough apart, examining its community workings and its problems. He reviews its history (dull), its people (average), its public spirit (strictly limited), its politics (strictly Republican...