Word: dulled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Like many a war correspondent, the New York Herald Tribune's Pulitzer Prizewinner Homer Bigart feared that postwar reporting would seem dull. But last week, in his new post in Poland, he was in no danger of being bored. Bigart, who describes his own politics as "left-of-center," expected to be welcomed in Warsaw. Instead, he found himself in the thick of a fight...
...Communist in Austria." When the returns were in, the Communists had managed to roll up only 5% of the country's vote (the Volkspartei polled some 50%, the Socialists some 45%). From their brief intermezzo of glory under Russia's exclusive occupation, they retained only one dull portfolio (Power & Electricity) and three seats in Parliament...
Deep in the oak and pine timberlands of the Southwest, a headsaw whined through the soft June night. Now & again the hooting of horned owls broke into the steady cough of the gasoline engine, the dull banging of the sawmill carriage, the slap, slap of cut slabs. At dawn, the fireflies and the old crew left the sawmill and the day gang took over...
Thus, for two domestic jobs, the President had chosen two old friends, both dull and uninspiring appointments. For two positions of international import, he had picked two Republicans-which should remove forever any small taint of isolationism that might still dog the G.O.P...
...account, he was often a dull pupil : "The lessons had to be driven in, on the spot, and almost literally by getting knocked on the head...