Word: dulled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...produced it, but by war's end he began saving and showing the gangling figures and groups, which seem to some eyes to float in a mysterious time and space of their own. An intense, modest man in frayed cuffs and baggy pants, Giacometti has not let success dull his adventurous dissatisfaction...
...direct-mail approach to subscribers, old and new, has always had excellent results. Sometimes they are even amazing. The return, stamped envelopes have brought back keys, rent money, slices of cheese and once, an upper plate of false teeth so dull they could not bite their way out of a paper...
...decades he has taught at Harvard, thousands of students have sailed into history under Morison's command and few of them will ever forget the voyage. The waters could be rough and the weather stormy, but no one could ever say that the trip had been dull. Last week, as he got set to retire, Morison was more than merely a great historian. He was also, in the tradition of Parkman and Prescott, the eloquent champion of history as the art of adventure...
...Dull the Shine. Often Du Pont does not even have time to make finished drawings, but has the bolts of cloth he orders cut and sewn from work sketches. He has two days to gather material, suits, dresses, underwear, stockings, shoes, brassières, furs and jewelry for everybody in the show from principals to walk-ons. It is the last-minute scramble that is most harrowing. Every man and woman in the show gets one fitting only. Next to the last day, they are fitted at the rate of one every 20 minutes. If anything is wrong, there...
Last week, when The Chocolate Soldier went on the air, Designer du Pont was on hand with a Flit gun. If any dress or suit was too bright or shiny for the TV cameras, he was there to spray it with liquid wax to dull the luster. As TV's top costume designer, Du Pont knows that there is a limit to how brilliant a dressmaker should be. That limit is reached when viewers start looking at the clothes rather than at the people wearing them...