Word: dulling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Russian dreams of the scientific future are mostly familiar items that long ago lost their power to bedazzle Americans. See SCIENCE, Dull or Concealed Dreams...
...excited CBS style, NBC's Huntley and Brinkley continued their trademarked approach of relaxed irony about what Brinkley called the "exquisite agony" of it all. At first that mood seemed less well suited to the running election story than it had been to the long-drawn-out, often dull spectacle of the conventions. But as the evening wore on, the Huntley-Brinkley atmosphere proved a tonic for the small hours. When one of the first Democratic state victories became obvious, Brinkley remarked wryly: "Suburban areas are supposed to go Republican as soon as they can afford power lawn mowers...
Fellow Bundestag Deputies thought of Socialist Alfred Frenzel, 61, as a dull fellow but a beaver for work. His diligent legislative spadework on any topic assigned him earned him a prized seat on the defense committee. There one of his proudest accomplishments was pushing through the adoption of a new vitamin-enriched bread for the West German army. Said a colleague: "No report was too tedious for him, no inspection trip too long...
...tough customer is the 108-year-old St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Only five years ago, the morning Globe was at death's door. Its makeup was sloppy; its local coverage was dull and spotty. The lace-kerchief editorial page was dubbed even by staffers as "the old lady." In 1955, Chain Publisher Samuel I. Newhouse bought the Globe-Democrat for $6,250,-000 and set about saving...
...schoolboy hero, a basketball player of exciting skill. That was the high point of his life. Now, out of the army and in his mid-20s, he has reached a personal nadir. The old hero of the courts works as a demonstrator of a kitchen gadget. His wife is dull, losing her looks, and spends most of her time before the TV set with an oldfashioned. Not knowing what he wants, but hating what he has, Rabbit walks out on his wife and child, gets into his car and simply runs away...