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Word: dulling (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Since the series ended, Captain (now Admiral) Kirk has been kicked upstairs to dull desk duty, Mr. Spock has settled on his native Vulcan, and "Bones" McCoy has become a bearded country doctor. The Enterprise itself is in drydock. Suddenly a Starfleet monitoring station spots an immense alien "force" speeding toward earth at "warp seven" speed, making nasty noises and devouring spaceships like popcorn. Out of drydock comes the Enterprise, and Kirk is returned to its command...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: New Treat for Trekkies | 1/15/1979 | See Source »

Lynch and King worked together for nearly 11 years while King was director of Massport. "There was never a dull moment in a day when I worked with King," Lynch said yesterday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Former Massport Attorney Named as King's Counsel | 1/10/1979 | See Source »

Washington Senator Scoop Jackson, California Governor Jerry Brown and AFL-CIO Secretary-Treasurer Lane Kirkland. Those who sent regrets, however, should have no regrets about having missed a whiz-bang show; the convention was exceptionally dull...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Jimmy's Party in Memphis | 12/18/1978 | See Source »

Your typical convention opens on a Sunday, gently, with late-afternoon registration and an icebreaker cocktail party. Who said cocktail parties have to be dull? The American Dietetic Association, meeting last fall in New Orleans, added a bit of drama to its opening reception by hiring sword balancers, portrait artists, strolling musicians?48 acts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Convening of America | 12/18/1978 | See Source »

...France--it is this alliance that has effectively challenged the idea that capitalism is the best way to get things done. Of course, this alliance has sprung from the high unemployment among Canadian academics and the high number of college graduates who have been forced, upon graduation, to take dull, mindless jobs or go without work. The influx of these college graduates into the class of people with little control over their jobs has most certainly had a consciousness-raising effect on the Canadian working class in general...

Author: By J. WYATT Emmerich, | Title: National Union of Students | 12/14/1978 | See Source »

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