Word: dulled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sensational affair began quietly with the dull thud of the 486-page Sunday New York Times arriving on doorsteps and in newsrooms. A dry Page One headline?VIETNAM ARCHIVE: PENTAGON STUDY TRACES 3 DECADES OF GROWING U.S. INVOLVEMENT Was followed by six pages of deliberately low-key prose and column after gray column of official cables, memorandums and position papers. The mass of material seemed to repel readers and even other newsmen. Nearly a day went by before the networks and wire services took note. The first White House reaction was to refrain from comment so as not to give...
...afternoon the skies above the White House Rose Garden were a dull pewter gray. The 400 guests arrived at the East Gate, had their credentials checked so that crashers could be spotted, and walked quickly through intermittent drizzle to shelter under the South Portico. It was not an auspicious beginning. Many guests thought that Tricia Nixon should move her wedding indoors to the East Room...
...intruders in a male institution." Such a feeling is hardly surprising, shared as it is by many Harvard officials who protest against educating women at the "expense" of men. Sadly enough, it is not unlikely that the Harvard dean who described Radcliffe alumnae as "bright, well-educated, but relatively dull housewives" was expressing the feelings of many of his colleagues as well...
...carefully than the Mona Lisa, these small pieces of the moon sitting in their glass case draw crowds throughout the world. The moon samples are probably some of the most uninteresting looking objects ever to attract such attention. They are not strangely shaped or beautifully colored. They are just dull dark rocks which reveal secrets only to the experts. Indeed, there is little assurance that the rocks in the glass case actually came from the moon. Next time you trip over a dark piece of rock, smile knowingly...
Baseball may be a deadly dull game to play compared to an individual sport like squash, but Vida Blue and Sonny Siebert can still snap 100,000 heart strings...