Word: dulling
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Possibly Wiesbaden is a very good duty station, (I have never been there) but your article leaves the general American public with the impression that we service people are living in the lap of luxury, and nothing could be further from the truth. Most duty stations are dull and drab and economically a hardship on the average G.I. Here is a picture of our plush living here at Misawa. It is of our off-base housing, which we call with deep affection B-Battery...
INCENSE TO IDOLS, by Sylvia Ashton-Warner. What happens when a beautiful and amoral French pianist with a taste for men sets her sights on a God-filled, Bible-thundering minister in a dull provincial town. In this one, New Zealand's Sylvia Ashton-Warner triumphantly proves that her remarkable Spinster last year was no happenstance...
...almost as famed for far-out humor as for his professional accomplishments. One of the nation's most gifted teachers and researchers in the field of quantum mechanics. Feynman is also one of the most gifted safecrackers currently at large: during World War II he whiled away dull hours at Los Alamos by opening his colleagues' safes and emptying them of their top-secret contents. Accustomed as they were to such Feynman showstoppers as proving that his sense of smell is as good as a dog's (by sniffing out articles handled by fellow dinner-party guests...
...stopped often to poke about in the ruins of a settler's cabin or the barely traceable midden of an Indian camp. Graves's record of the journey is an eloquent elegy. While the author makes it clear that he finds one era fascinating and the other dull, he does not make the sentimentalist's mistake of saying "that Texans were nobler men in the days of the cattle drives than they are in those of "pink Thunderbirds and patio living...
...read Snow's novels could think him a dull dog, or a man who has not known conflict. But in the presence of the physical man, the "four square" appearance of a "solid, warm, wise, and cautious nature," the "solid, rational decorum," the interrogative "Mnunmm . . ." turning into a clearing of the throat, that knowledge wavers. Yet finally something comes from the man, more I think from the eyes than else-where, which restores conviction, and one knows again that accretions of fame and power have not calcified his curiosity or entombed his human sympathies...