Word: dullest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...paper protests of the U.S. Government against crooked elections in Poland and Hungary or against Petkoff's condemnation make the dullest Communist leaders just laugh, because they know as well as you that the U.S. Government is neither prepared nor willing to back its protests by that which counts, i.e., by force...
...minor revelation took place last week. The end of the Moscow Conference provided it. At last even the dullest U.S. citizen was made to realize the exasperating difficulty and the aggravating exhaustion of dealing with the Soviet Government. The realization marked the end of another phase of U.S. foreign policy. Now the question became: "What does the U.S. do next...
...nothing to wear but castoffs-speeches, discussions, classical music-from its flashy big sister, NBC's Red Network. When NBC got rid of the Blue (by request of the Federal Communications Commission), Woods became its first president. His first job: to auction off "the dullest, speechingest network you ever heard," a 116-station property that brought in a slim $14 million in 1942. It took Mark a year and a half to find a buyer...
Starting Seed. In 1930 he went into commercial radio as "Red Godfrey, the Warbling Banjoist," advertising bird seed. Next year, while "one of NBC's dullest announcers, and that's saying plenty," he was hit by a truck, spent four months in a hospital, listening hour after hour to the radio...
...have no place in the realm of motion pictures, though it comes out better in an animated cartoon than when dragged into a regular movie as a dream sequence. "Roll Along, Blue Bayon," which stars two cranes cavorting in the heart of Senator Claghorn's country, is probably the dullest thing ever to come out of the Disney studios...