Word: dulled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...true that our food here in England is dull, uninteresting and inadequate. It is true that it becomes sickening to live for years on 7 oz. of fat (including all butter, margarine & lard) and less than 1 Ib. of meat a week. ... It is even true that over a period of years our diet is inadequate to maintain proper fitness and resistance to disease. Add to this fuel rationing, sky-high prices and acute housing shortage, and you will appreciate that for a victorious (sic) nation our position is not pleasant...
Although TIME'S footnotes serve many different functions, our editors have found them an ideal device for disposing of long, dull Government reports, etc. whose gist can be given in a paragraph or two. They work hard at this kind of condensation, but occasionally the subject matter will not condense. Once, for instance, one of our National Affairs writers had to explain the game of poker in a footnote (the subject had come up on the floor of the U.S. Senate, and it was news). On his first try, the footnote turned out to be almost as long...
...Quonset huts and many of the more substantial installations have been pulled down and carried away to Panama. The broad macadamized fighter strip is now abandoned, and only our three visiting B-17s are visible beside the longer main strip. Soon there may be only the caretakers left. Dull, drab Seymour Island may shortly revert to the goats, and the archipelago itself to the naturalists...
...minor items translated for the first time. In 1900, when he was a young and promising writer of stories, Gorky went to call on the great novelist, later spent some time near Tolstoy's home in the Crimea. Perhaps he had expected to find a dull old vegetarian disguised in a peasant's smock and spouting platitudes. He found instead a henpecked, shriveled, electrifying man with "shaggy" eyebrows, "wonderful" hands, a passion for card games, a "shocking" coarseness of speech...
...Catalepsy. Little Alma Bridwell was thought so dull by her Kentucky parents that they gave her ten brothers & sisters a priority on schooling. When an aunt invited one of the seven girls in the family to visit the wild Montana Territory, Alma was her last choice-but each of the others was afraid to venture into the country of cowboys & Indians. Nineteen-year-old Alma took the chance and stayed to teach, first in public school, later in Salt Lake City's Methodist seminary. When she wanted to preach as well, shocked Methodists told her to marry a preacher...