Word: dulled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Korea John Cassity, an Army officer from Grantsville, Utah, once ran across "a real stupid-looking fellow"-a Korean civilian whom the Americans called Mortimer Gooch. Gooch "cleaned up around a tent in headquarters and seemed so dull that it was difficult even to give him orders. When he was finally fired, he pretended to be so stupid that he didn't know he was fired, and kept coming back." Later, Cassity came to believe that the dull Korean was really a Communist spy in disguise. Eventually, Cassity went back to civilian life and became chief security officer...
...same order. Australia's holder of the world record for the mile run (3 min. 58 sec.), lanky John Landy, 24, was given the Order of the British Empire. Britain's great miler, Dr. Roger Bannister, had been ignored, but more because the list was so dull, London's press exploded in columns of indignation. The editorial consensus: the list had deteriorated into "a haven for aging admirals and bureaucrats...
...right is your cover caption, "The luck, she is still running good." It is outrageous for anyone to get consideration for anything as dull, poorly written and all-around uninteresting...
Such assets help, even more than the humor, in this success story of the wife-made man. They brighten up Barrie's essentially unattractive characters. Those hard bargainers and dull conversationalists, the Wylie brothers, are saved by their affection for Maggie. An egocentric John Shand is saved by a humorlessness that makes him funny. And Maggie herself, whose maiden name wasn't Wylie for nothing, becomes an actress' dream part through the love that inspires the wiles...
...that generation (the Joyce-Eliot-Pound one) as in any way paternal. They are just a bit older than we are, even if they have gone around being aged eagles for a very long time indeed. It is, however, a little unfair of them to criticize us for being dull. It is not to be denied that our poets are dim, even the best of them. Yet this is entirely because they have been taught from earliest childhood that Mr. Eliot believes in Tradition, and that it is better in every way to be a good minor poet than...