Word: dulling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When it is played coolly and efficiently, baseball can sometimes be pretty dull. There is an insomniac in Manhattan who gave up Seconal for the Yankees. But sloppy baseball can be fun to watch-as it was last week, when the San Francisco Giants and the Los Angeles Dodgers fumbled and bumbled their way through a wacky three-game playoff for the National League pennant. All it proved was that while the club owners could take the boys away from Coogan's Bluff and Flatbush, they could never take the old ways away from the boys. And while...
...they could not dull the delight of at least one jumper, Yugoslavia's Milan Knor, 23, who climaxed his part of the competition by asking for political asylum in the U.S. As for his showing in the championships (26th in 97), Knor might have explained to his departing teammates that it was not so bad. considering that he joined the team merely to get out of Communist Yugoslavia...
Back in Europe, things will probably seem pretty dull for a while...
Atlas presents its samplings from the foreign press in deadly earnest-as the heavy-footed translations often show. It is better to be correct than lively, argue the editors, even at the expense of sometimes being dull. The format is invariable -80 pages, no ads, dark pictures, brisk italic notes before each article to introduce the writer and his paper. Editor Quincy Howe (who moonlights on Atlas from his job as an ABC news analyst) graces each issue with a breezy editorial that stylishly avoids pausing long enough on any subject to say very much about...
Bennett the elder was a crabbed Scot who founded the Herald in 1827. The newspapers of the time were timid and dull, sycophants to power, lively only when used by their editors for inter-paper squabbling. Bennett, armed with the heretical notion that a newspaper should be "impudent and intrusive," invaded two untouched news areas-finance and society-exposing the market swindles of the moneyed and reporting with little respect the social pretensions of their wives. On dull days, he twitted blue noses; one editorial guffaw at unmentionability taunted : "Petticoats-petticoats-petticoats; there, you fastidious fools, vent your mawkishness...