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...Quixote's horse), equip him with everything from trenching tools to subzero underwear, send along a pedigreed French poodle named Charley with prostatitis. follow the man and dog on a three-month, 10,000-mile trip through 34 states, and what have you got? One of the dullest travelogues ever to acquire the respectability of a hard cover. Vagabond Steinbeck's motive for making the long, lonely journey is admirable: "To try to rediscover this monster land" after years of easy living in Manhattan and a country place in Sag Harbor. L.I. He meets some interesting people: migrant...
High Octane. The week's entertainments got under way with the annual Congressional Reception-a duty date that is ordinarily the dullest of the six official receptions that protocol requires the President to give each year.* Reporting the party for the New York Post, svelte Marion Javits, wife of New York's Republican Senator Jack Javits, wrote that "the First Lady was stunning in a white satin sleeveless dress embossed with brightly colored flowers into which tiny pearls were sewn. She wore long diamond and emerald earrings and a diamond hairclip." Another fashionplate was Harlem...
When things onstage got a little slow, I listened to the little band in the pit, which is good; it can play hot and cool, and its arrangements of the dullest songs are snappy. (Alan Lutkus, by the way, plays saxophone and clarinet...
...sunglasses and opened a bloody gash on his forehead. Pitcher Whitey Ford bounced a foul off his big toe and had to hobble to the showers. In one game alone, the Yankees committed three errors. But injuries and bonehead plays only added a dash of excitement to the dullest World Series in years. Coldly and efficiently, the Yankees butchered the hapless Cincinnati Reds in five games, won their 19th world championship without even working up a sweat. Growled Cincinnati Manager Fred Hutchinson: "We just got the hell kicked...
Despite his stocky football player's build, pugnacious Chuck McKinley danced, pranced and pirouetted around Wimbledon's center court last week like a souped-up Nijinsky. The gallery loved it. What had been shaping up as the dullest Wimbledon tournament of the century was suddenly infused with zest and excitement, and the credit belonged entirely to the 20-year-old, 5-ft. 8-in., 163 lb. dynamo from St. Louis. "Chunky Chuck looks like a rock but moves like a dragonfly," said a British newsman. Marveled the London Times: "He plays most of the time with both feet...