Word: dulled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week the British electorate was not happy about the result. It grumbled; it complained; it envied other nations. But the British electorate was far from willing to say that Labor had failed. It knew failure was a definite possibility; but, even in the midst of the dull, grey frustration of postwar Britain, the majority still seemed willing to "wait and see" how Labor met the test of the next two years...
...think, fairly typical of young people my age. In the Forces, I developed strong Labor sympathies and a firm conviction that the Conservatives were unprogressive and antisocial. I was elated when Labor came into power, but even I have to admit sadly that this last year has been very dull. However, I refuse to pour down accusations and blame on the Laborites, and consider it the result of our impoverished postwar position...
...beach resort held its first summer opening in six years. The 10,000-odd visitors, including some 2,000 Britons and a scattering of Americans, saw the-Normandy coast playground as they had seen it on picture postcards-tree-shaded streets, restful, gaily decorated buildings and a placid, dull-green...
Woman in the Garden. Salazar relieves this dull routine by tending his magnificent flower garden at Santa Comba. It was there, and through the medium of the flowers he loves, that he met the woman who has in the last few months made an extraordinary difference in his life. When he decided to give a reception for Dona Amelia de Orleans e Braganga, mother of Don Duarte Nufio, the pretender to Portugal's throne, his advisers suggested that the Countess de la Seca, a widow with two young children, should act as hostess. When the Countess took over...
...covered every major political campaign since, and a lot of minor ones, writing them up in the chatty, offhand Collier's style, long on anecdote and short on big, dull facts.'Like Collier's Quentin Reynolds, Kyle Crichton and Jim Marshall, he is a swift, easy writer. He regards his promotion as more of the same formula that gets Collier's its 2,846,052 circulation: slight, slick fiction; articles serious in subject, light in treatment; the simple, direct editorials of Reuben Maury who (for a price) writes another kind for the late Joe Patterson...