Word: dulled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...what they thought was an abandoned English country house. But desolate Orchilly House turned out to be crammed to the eaves. The intruding sergeant was met by the politically leftish daughter of the house, Virginia, who had been running the place ever since she ran away from her dull and snobbish husband. In one of the bedrooms lay Virginia's once-beautiful mother-an invalid whose sickness no doctor could diagnose. Home on furlough was son Vaughan, an R.A.F. squadron leader whose bombing forays over Germany had filled him with disgust and disillusionment. Orchilly's permanent guests were...
...something to see. Broadway Designer Jo Mielziner had spent a wad of State Department money on its four golden, velour columns (for the Four Freedoms), its blue backdrop, the semicircle of 46 United Nations flags, the floodlighting. The effect was just about right-not dull, not gaudy...
Right off the bat, Harry Truman proved himself a radio speaker who meant to be clearly understood. His manner was so deliberate that it was sometimes dull, and he spoke so slowly it was sometimes exasperating. Lacking anything approaching the Rooseveltian "magic," either in voice or style, he made a virtue out of making himself plain-and that made it easy to believe what he said...
...less interesting and important than Volume I (TIME, Jan. 10, 1944), which described brilliantly the conflict between Latin and U.S. cultures as sensed by an uncommonly perceptive youth. But Santayana's extraordinary mind and masterly prose could not produce a dull or unimportant book. He writes about the great figures of his time the way other biographers write about eccentric family servants. And he writes about friends unknown to the world-Andrew Green, "Swelly" Bangs, Bob Barlow, Howard Gushing, Howard Sturgis, Bob Potter, Lawrence Butler-as if they were philosophers whose minds he studied as he studied those...
Steady slogging through some of the worst jungle in the world is not only uncomfortable but makes dull copy, which is no doubt why Burma has become the most forgotten front of the war. "Objective Burma" is Warner Brothers' attempt to give the front its due, and is a good professional job of movie-making as well...