Word: dulled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...always producing, going somewhere, I sat for hours in the house of a young Indian, listening in the growing darkness to one crackling tape recording of Indian songs being sung by cousins down the coast in La Romaine. The batteries were all but dead, reducing the singing to a dull moan, so he would take them out and put them on the stove every once in a while. And it would sound like singing for a few seconds, then slow down again. A drunk man came tapping at the window, calling "Nikahan, Nikahan," who sat still in the gloom until...
HARVARD-COLUMBIA--New Lion coach Bill Campbell is still looking for his first win. Next year, maybe. As for now, the poor fellow must suffer the trials and tribulations of coaching a pack of losers. Another dull rout. Harvard 40, Columbia...
Barnes' play has a central moral lesson that he is willing to hit home with any and all means at his disposal. Some of his techniques go back to his most familiar work, the screenplay for The Ruling Class, but here he is never as heavy-handed or simply dull as he was in parts of that film. But Barnes' inspired recreation of the House of Lords, shown in The Ruling Class as a stately chamber filled with several hundred mouldy, spider-webbed skeletons madly clapping their metacarpals and rapturously singing "Dem Bones Gonna Rise", is echoed in Carlos' court...
...confidence they should place in its findings. This past year the Committee on Undergraduate Education evaluated 36 courses using a computer-tabulated questionnaire that was distributed in the courses evaluated, thus insuring a valid sample. On a numerical scale of one to five representing the gamuts clear--muddled, dull-lively, and thought provoking--pedantic, Phil 8 scored respectively 1,9,3,7, and 1.8. In each case Phil 8 was higher than the average of those courses evaluated. Given that the course had an enrollment of 44.5 per cent freshmen and very few students with any previous preparation in philosophy...
...celebration, it was a dull series, a letdown after a close elimination series between American hopeful Intrepid and the eventual winner, number 26. It was a disappointment after the pre-race buildup that the Southern Cross was given...