Word: dulled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...gone the way of all the others in this amusement-hungry post-war era--if the reactions of an audience that packed the Opera House for the benefit of the Hugh Cabot Memorial Fund Tuesday night can be accounted typical. The obviously eager crowd cheered shoddy performance after performance, dull choreography, and unimaginative costumes and sets...
...over to the mantlepiece, poured out an inch of Southern Comfort, and proposed a toast. "Here's to you, F. Scott Fitzvag," he murmured, downing the 100 proof liquid. Something about bananas and refrigerators was coming out of the radio, and seated again the chair, his ears turning a dull crimson, Vag began to see the happy scenes...
...favored needy sit, dull as cattle, while a coolie ladles their gruel out of a wooden bucket. Many are rheumy-eyed from malnutrition and blink and squint constantly as they slup their food. The sound is like the suction of noisy plumbing. When they are through, they wrap their bowls and chopsticks in cotton rags and go quietly away to wait for another meal...
...Brigadier General Courtney Whitney, onetime Manila lawyer, began informing the Council in the most specific detail of the U.S. democratization policies. (At one point he read the names of nearly 200 Japanese organizations, apologized for omitting the addresses.) In the deliberate fashion of a schoolmaster lecturing a group of dull pupils, he interspersed pointed remarks directed at the Russian. (On one occasion: "Is the Russian representative understanding all this?" On another: "Will you kindly interpret that to General Derevyanko?") At the noon recess a correspondent asked when Whitney would finish. He smiled and answered: "I may be through...
...chalky procession of anemic heroes with torches, washed-out heroines with doves, empty-eyed angels with bubbles, and chubby babies with bouquets, the show seemed to modern eyes like the interminable (though carefully censored) maunderings of a none-too-bright schoolgirl. Harvard students found it dull as dishwater. The Handwriting on the Frame...