Word: dulled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...When you drag the children out of their hovels into the light of day, they all show the same familiar signs: narrow shoulders, protruding Adam's apple, spidery legs, earth-colored, leathery skin, huge eyes in huge heads. Worst of all, they have the dull, fixed stare of children who have never laughed...
...Folie (It's Madness), this latest mounting of a spectacle that has more tourist appeal than the Louvre or the Eiffel Tower was decidedly up to snuff. It was so glamorously dressed and undressed by turns that the critics slid right over its dull tunes and dreary gags to write rave reviews...
...occupation forces, not Frenchmen. But there was nothing to keep Parisians and others from tuning into the recorded programs from America -Bob Hope, Fibber McGee, Fred Allen, etc., into Beaucoup de Mtisique, an hour-long afternoon jive session, or Midnight in Paris, a two-hour nightly dance program. Unlike dull, politicky French radio, which suspended afternoon broadcasts four days a week to cut costs, AFN had become as staple a fare as red wine. Gaston Deferre, French Under Secretary of Information, asked formally that the U.S. Army keep the network going...
Behymer covered his share of murders and lynchings, put in what he regards as several dull stretches as assistant city editor, spent one happy period writing a Sunday feature page called the "True Life Section," where the P-D ran "scrupulously true stories about people and their lives." He still writes that kind of story, but the section was killed long ago by the. late Managing Editor 0. K. Bovard. Said O.K.B.: "Too many cornfield murders...
...their pitch-black, hidden tunnels, termites have survived from extreme antiquity. But they have paid a price. None of the colony's members-the blind, scurrying workers, the distorted soldiers, the priapic king and swollen queen-are more than dull automata, the helpless slaves of a strong, though invisible and despotic state...