Word: dulled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lengthening Shadow. Examination of Earl Warren's 25-year record in public office fails to reveal much promise that he is a potential giant in U.S. history. The Warren utterances and speeches have never risen above the level of safe, dull political prose. He has rarely tried anything which had not been tried before. A calm man of Swedish descent, slow to anger, he has stuck close to the middle of the road. But the record does reveal an able, hardworking, personally attractive public servant who, with the westering sun of California behind him, is casting a longer...
Despite this drubbing, last week's football game was an indication of how U.S. sports have swept Allied troops in the Middle East. A year ago, football seemed an undisciplined roughhouse to rugby-bred Britons. Baseball seemed dull to cricket-loving Allies. Now the Middle East has its own international leagues in both sports...
Jerphanion, now vice president of the Radical-Socialist Party. He delivers a long, dull speech (which Romains unblushingly describes as "great"). With an ex-diplomat he investigates a death among the mountain people of his native province-a death which might be from hard conditions of life in a snowbound farmhouse without medical aid, or might be murder...
...even dull (as Dr. Johnson said of Thomas Gray's poetry) in a new way. The book, the tunes, the dancing all follow proved Broadway formulas. The trouble is they never catch up with them...
...miles to the south guns boomed. Day & night, Red cannon shelled Vitebsk, 15 miles away, and its "escape railway" to the west. From the city and the railroad came the dull, angry answer of German salvos. Things were going badly for the Wehrmacht, but it fought on. Vitebsk was a dam; it had to be held. Its fall would imperil the strongholds of White Russia -Orsha, Mogilev, Zhlobin, Polotsk - perhaps lead to retreat beyond the prewar Polish border...