Word: dulling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...victory feast was elaborate in the best Japanese manner: wild boar soup, egg roll, raw fish, grilled eel and steaming platters of yakitori (chicken-on-a-stick). But the victory was not as sweet as expected, and the host could be pardoned if his appetite was a bit dull. In the election that preceded last week's "victory dinner" in his garden, Japan's Premier Eisaku Sato won his party's renomination under a cloud of rebuke from more than a third of his Liberal Democratic lieutenants. His victory thus assured him not only of almost automatic...
...always preserves a heroic figure: by embalming it in marmalade. In the new movie, one of the great fighting Irishmen is transformed into a priggish Prince Valiant and his complex politico-military career made into the sort of primary-colored comic strip that parents consider safe and children consider dull...
...contrast, the Democrats ran notably dull campaigns in New York, Illinois, Michigan and California, committed a few grievous gaffes along the way. None was worse than a scene in the 30-minute campaign film in which Pat Brown was shown telling a little Negro girl: "I'm running against an actor ?and remember this: You know who shot Abraham Lincoln...
Along with its Hi Brows, American Greetings right now is profiting from another change in greeting-card habits. Once holidays and birthdays were the principal business, and there was a long dull season between Father's Day and Thanksgiving. Now "everyday cards"-get-wells, new baby, confirmation, religious cards and bon-voyage messages -account, along with birthdays, for 60% of American Greetings' business, since families are more scattered nowadays. Last week there was even a rush for another of the everydays that American Greetings stocks in its inventory of 10,000 different cards. "Just because...
McNamara cited his own experience in government as evidence of the tremendous opportunities and benefits of public service. "Too many people consider it dull," he said, "I don't consider it dull. . . . it isn't a sacrifice, it's an opportunity...