Word: dulled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...major focuses," says Partners' McNulty, "is on what is doable with a small amount of funds. The aim is to change a street from a dull, dead place and bring people back downtown." Not everyone is in agreement with NcNulty...
...Just Can't Stop it, they asked P.M. Thatcher, with propriety, "Please stand down, Margaret, stand down". This summer's Wha'ppen is one of the best releases of the year, discarding some of the cande-party for some somber, intricate, personal Anglo-Jamaican Salsa, all highly listenable, never dull. You can't listen passively--they shake a finger at you and say "Get a job!" or ask you "Dying to become a man? Well, I am your flag!". They mix the deadly earnestness of Elvis Costello with the singalong fun of the Beach Boys. It doesn't matter...
...California that Cain funy explored this theme. In California, he found a society so new, so unstable that he didn't need floods or coal mines to bring two people passionately together. As he told Hoopes, "Any piece of California, no matter how drab, prosaic, or dull, is California just the same, the land of Golden Promise." Unlike the staid, conservative East, where the wealthy stayed wealthy and the poor stayed poor, the West had become a land of overnight wealth, of rags to riches, with nobody excluded from the chase. Many characters are willing to risk anything to find...
...interhouse games cut across the accepted stereotypes and boundaries that separate Harvard into self-contained groups. They give you a chance to see your peers outside of classes, meals, and social functions. Somehow, it's comforting to know that the guy or girl you thought pretentious or maybe dull loves to play volleyball--just like...
...earlier that day in a restaurant. The pedestrian in the heavy sweater and the pedestrian in the black coat are drinking coffee and reading the newspapers. Discussion centers on various errands proposed and various errands accomplished. It has been a rather unmemorable day. Nothing terribly exciting, nothing terribly dull. Just, you know, a what-the-hell kind of day. Coffees have been drunk and books have been read. Nothing pressing...