Word: dulling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When the U.S. General Accounting Office dispatched its investigators onto Forest Service land, the assignment seemed typically dull: a survey of mining claims. But last week the investigators returned to Washington pop-eyed and aghast at all the things in the forest that cannot be seen for all the trees...
...provide, says Principal Cleveland A. Thomas, "the highest order of parent participation of any school I have ever known." The parents could feel confident of a sound investment. Said Harvard College's Dean John Monro, chief speaker at the dedication of the building: "I have never known a dull boy to come to us from Parker. They all care a lot about something that really matters...
Merrill's Marauders is much quieter than the usual war picture. Rifle fire has the deceptively dull sound of rifle fire. Plans are made in everyday voices, neither out of breath with excitement nor too studiously underkeyed. Director Samuel Fuller, who served in the infantry during World War II, seems determined to make the point that men at war-particularly when their war is one of close-in jungle combat unsupported by artillery-fight and die quietly...
Were China at all interesting, one might dismiss the violent anti-Western outbursts as annoyances, but China is so woefully dull that the most absorbing articles in it are those on green tea and tree peonies. The photo features, for example, contain such interesting items as: "After five revolutions the transport service in the Fuhsen mining area has shown marked improvement. Here we see the loading of coal in the Haichu open-cut mine." Another caption: "The nationally renowned 'Flying-Pigeon' Bicycle." And again: "Chiang Yen-shin, who has been promoted from a foundry worker to an engineer, has fulfilled...
...culture commissar. Fresh from his gala at the White House with the Kennedys, Malraux in Manhattan had some eloquent words to say on the subject of mass culture. Even the New York Times, which yields to no one in its readiness to print long texts of politicians' dull speeches, missed this lively one, which we quote from extensively in Modern Living...