Word: dulling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...officer. The two met when Buckingham was ten and have been fast friends ever since. "I spent a very quiet day on my birthday with him, his wife and their three children," said the gentle, aging bachelor. "I suppose by American standards you'd say it was a dull British day, but I like to have the children around...
...Crimson utterly obliterated the hockey team of obscure Norwich University in a dull game Saturday night. mained scoreless during the first as Harvard chalked up four goals in ten minutes. Senior ranks of the top ten Harvard hockey high scorers as he pushed his career total is points...
...looking for a student who theoretically should exist in every department," says Classicist David Grene. "I don't think we get better students than the departments, but we get fewer bad, dull ones. The onus of the work is on the student. He must teach himself...
...reason for the dispersion is higher standards at the Big Three schools and more scholarships for gifted poor boys. Bright scholars have driven out dull scions. As one result, says Hawes, the country is getting "a new set of socially desirable colleges that has some of the flavor of the old upper-class institutions, but less of their academic rigor." More important, the competition is upgrading society itself. Says Hawes: "It could not be said of any period up through the 1940s that most young members of the upper class had to pursue rigorous intellectual training before they could take...
...only major rival of De Gaulle for the presidency, Defferre's chances of winning do not seem bright. As a Protestant, he is obviously considered suspect by many of the Catholic center. But he can be depended upon to make lively what might have been a dull campaign and to ask questions that trouble even Gaullist Frenchmen, questions about European policy, the independent nuclear deterrent, and, especially, about inflation. "The general bears the entire responsibility for the deterioration of our financial position," Defferre charges. "You can't deny De Gaulle's immense qualities, but he is truly...