Word: dulling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Liberal supporters of the appointments were not altogether unhappy with a temporary delay that would let memories dull and tempers cool. Fortas was on firm ground in refusing to answer questions about past rulings and issues that might be brought before the court in the future, but it still looked odd for a judge, in effect, to "take the Fifth." Though he was open and candid about his relations with the President, even his friends were dismayed by the extent to which Justice Fortas had dou bled as White House adviser. Nor was Fortas' case helped by comments from...
...ever to become a reality, then the White man and the Black man must come together in peaceful societal coexistence or they must separate completely. There are many who believe that they cannot and must not live together. When black and white come together in the color spectrum, a dull gray color is created. This gray is generally used to denote a scary, horrid gory situation. Have you ever washed black clothes with white clothes? The black dominates, and the weaker white fabric fades...
...other side of the coin is that to many fans good pitching means dull baseball. Some may appreciate perfection, but more abhor monotony. Already this season there have been 176 shutouts in the majors-including 44 games with 1-0 scores-and attendance around the big leagues is down 4% from 1967. "I'm tired of 1-0 games myself," says the Angels' Fregosi, whose suggested remedy for baseball's power failure is to eliminate the mound and make pitchers throw out of a waist-deep hole...
...other power styles (De Gaulle), Biographer Lacouture has the difficult job of estimating a man who has made a career out of being underestimated and who wears ambiguity as practically his uniform. No wonder Ho and the book occasionally seem to dissolve into mist. But the tracking is never dull as Lacouture chases down his Asian escape artist...
...lavish sets, again remarkably similar to the sets used for the Shaw play, are dull and unoriginal...