Word: dulled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Novelist Jules Roy, a onetime infantryman in the French army and World War II R.A.F. bomber pilot, writes about a navigator who is a distant, haunted figure, indistinguishable from all uniformed youthful intellectuals. His problems typify the problems of every individual lost in the impersonal service: companions suddenly turned dull and insensible, sudden fear that makes him weasel out of a flight with an inept pilot, an insensitive squadron commander who lives by the book. The girl he loves is all the girls men loved in outposts of the war-vague, ephemeral, but the memory of "life and compassion...
...first meeting of the New York Times unit of the Communist Party, he was shocked to find himself the only member of the editorial department, although there were half a dozen other Times employees there. A year later Freeman broke with the Communists, because party-line discussions proved "dull and fruitless," and activities "inept and futile." After his full and frank testimony, the Times kept Freeman...
Revealing Rack. Lucrezia, his second wife, was running to fat, dull and fearful, a natural target for his abuse. Not Beatrice. As the papal prosecutor pieced it together, she decided to kill her father and persuaded mother Lucrezia and brother Giacomo to cooperate. Big, powerful Olimpio agreed to do the killing for his mistress and a messy job it was. The family explanation that Cenci had fallen to his death through a rickety balcony was too easily disproved, and even Pope Clement VIII refused to temper justice with mercy. Beatrice, Lucrezia and Giacomo all confessed, though modern justice might question...
...around Britain's Grantchester, which in turn might-or might not-bring her back to the subject at hand. "I have learned," she once wrote, "that to know precisely what I am doing in any given class, at any given moment, is a state of mind as intolerably dull for my students as for myself...
...year the most popular TV fare, is so evident that CBS is throwing it out wholesale. CBS is canceling 16 new half-hour shows. Situation Comedy Writer Lou Derman gave the reason in last week's trade sheet Variety: "We've allowed our shows to become unbearably dull, repetitious, predictable, wild and sloppy. We've ignored a public that's sick and tired of watching, story in and story out, about Bringing the Boss Home to Dinner; and Forgetting the Wife's Birthday; and Getting Into This Disguise So's Husband...