Word: dulling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...other Ivy action, Columbia's Cardiac Kids took all the fun out of football and won by more than three points for the first time this season when they beat Penn, 17-3. In Palmer Stadium. Princeton succeeded in disappointing its fans with a dull 10-6 loss to Yale...
...dull black cylinder on a mock Spartan anti-ballistic missile waited buried an incredible 6,000 feet beneath tiny Amchitka Island in the Aleutians. The signal was given and in one-tenth of a millionth of a second, Cannikin, code name for the most powerful underground nuclear test ever held by the U.S., exploded with the force of 5 million tons of TNT. TIME Correspondent Karsten Prager reported from the command bunker on Amchitka that half a second after detonation the earth heaved upward, hiding the test site in a curtain of dust and water, and aftershocks rumbled...
...authorities are the bishop-who uses "modern" as the synonym for "sinful" -and the handful of government bureaucrats with their forms and seals pettily executing justice and collecting taxes in moldering ducal palaces. Time has stuck at late feudalism. In "an aura of stopped drains and tinkling bells," bony, dull-eyed children full of resentment grow into "tentative" men and "bleak, stubborn women" whose faces resemble eroded hillsides...
...wrenching contradictions had been there from the first day. Tuesday, August 17. Driving to Ann Arbor through the dull flatlands of Michigan, we felt distant from any problems: the driver cruising at 85, the recurring billboard--"Farmer Pete's People Pleasin' Meats", the popular song on the radio, George Harrison's "Bengla Desh," ("So many people are dyin' fast....") The mood at the University of Michigan campus in Ann Arbor was serious. Jock Brown's "guerrilla liturgy" the first evening set the tone of searching for an awareness of each individual's complicity in the war. Jock, a minister from...
...game began as a dull defensive struggle, for Dartmouth's total offense in the first period was minus 1 yard while the Eli only ground out plus...