Word: dulling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...affairs of the University. Included, usually, are a laborious compendium of the University's financial proceedings, a superficial rundown of activities in the college and the various graduate schools--with particular attention given to social clubs and athletic teams--and an obituary column for University notables. They have been dull, unenlightening, but most of all, uncontroversial...
...degenerated from one of Hollywood's more interesting bad moviemakers into one of its most maudlin. The crude but somehow compelling live-TV quality of Judgment at Nuremberg and Ship of Fools, painted with crayon and musicalized by DeVol, blessed with Sidney Poitier, reveals Kramer to be an exceedingly dull thinker and hardly any artist...
Radio Pyongyang later broadcast what it described as an interview with Bucher conducted by North Korean reporters. In it, Bucher-or a stand-in-was asked whether his ship had intruded into Korean waters and whether his crew should be considered aggressors. A dull voice replied: "Yes, I admit. I have no excuse whatsoever. Our espionage acts are plain acts of aggression and criminal acts that violated the rudimental norms of international...
...During World War II, he was tapped to teach navigation for the Army's Transportation Corps in the U.S. and Australia. After the war, Simonsen sailed as a captain for the Military Sea Transportation Service, but he beached himself in 1950 because he "found going to sea pretty dull in peacetime." Working ashore was not much more satisfactory. After a series of sales jobs in the U.S. and Canada, including a stint as a salesman for Sears, Roebuck, Simonsen decided to go back to sea vicariously-by teaching other people how to handle themselves afloat...
...industry as a whole. As Child Psychologist Hilde Himmelweit, author of Television and the Child, says: "It seems to me a devastating indictment that while ten-year-olds still pick up some knowledge from television, by the time they reach 13 only the dull ones do so, and that the more intelligent the child the less the TV hold becomes. Is it perhaps that much of the evening entertainment is at the level of a ten-to eleven-year...