Word: dulling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Harvard's added depth this year and Southeaster's usual lack of talent combined to produce a pretty dull, one-sided contest. The Southeastern fencers would walk out on the strip, wave their weapons, and walk off losers. On only a few occasions did they exhibit any knowledge of fencing technique...
...three of the six rooms in Smith's suite in the old Senate Office Building. On Stevenson's side, people flowed in in a kind of happy chaos while a small boy cheerfully answered the phone; across the DMZ, a Smith aide said that things were pretty dull...
...Arthur Burns, wife of the chairman of the Federal Reserve, is currently exhibiting an advanced case of Potomac Fever. When she last lived in Washington, under the socially dull Eisenhower Administration, her husband was an economic adviser. "This time we're meeting heads of state, we're talking to people who make history," she wonderingly exclaims. "Each time I go to the White House it's a special thrill ?and we go there often now. You make that turn into the grounds you sweep up to the portico, and I think, 'It's mine! It's ours!' Washington...
...matter: Elvis up there singing, singing. Love, love me do. When suddenly he begins to shrink. Say from 18 feet down to about three. The screen shatters into a half-dozen other, simultaneous, images. Up left, an exterior shot of Las Vegas' International Hotel. By day, a pretty dull affair, not to be compared with Caesar's or the Sands. But by night! ELVIS. In mile-high neon. As if the very stars had fallen from the desert sky, the guts wrenched out of the moon; all so that some mad manipulator of electric gases could spell out ELVIS-COMIN...
...first exposure to the Harvard-Yale Game came as a freshman, and being from the Midwest I was not aware of the tradition of The Game. After watching 60 minutes of relatively dull football by an untalented Yale team and a not-much-better Harvard, I still did not associate particular significance to this game...