Word: dulling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Varilla left for Washington to put the question to Roosevelt. The Frenchman received "no assurances," Roosevelt said later, but the President added: "He is a very able fellow, and it was his business to find out what he thought our Government would do. He would have been a very dull man had he been unable to make such a guess...
Without even a building to call its own, ;he Comptroller of the Currency's office is a federal backwater, responsible only for the important but dull job of regulating the 4,600 national banks. Suddenly, the comptroller's quarters at the L'Enfant Plaza hotel are among the busiest in Washington, as U.S. bank examiners press their potentially explosive investigation of Bert Lance's financial affairs. The comptroller's lengthy report is due soon, perhaps this week, and could save or squash the powerful budget director, who is Jimmy Carter's old pal, former...
...peculiar spelling of my last name." He lives in an unpretentious upper-middle-class house in North Dallas with his wife Nancy, who was a classmate at Southern Methodist University, and their four children, and drives a five-year-old Buick. Friends describe him as earnest and rather dull at parties. Politically, Hunt calls himself moderate, and by family standards he is. He has supported conservative candidates, but talks of the need for business and government to work together, a view that would have been anathema to his father...
...early 20s, however, Colin is becalmed and resentful, a teacher of dull-eyed children in a coal town, a survivor of a glum and perfunctory love affair. His only vivid feeling is rancid hatred for a placid younger brother who accepts a miner's life as normal...
...four men were herded into the dingy, second-floor courtroom of Milan's Palace of Justice-handcuffed in pairs and bound together by a dull iron chain. The lone woman defendant walked by herself under the guard of heavily armed carabinieri. Six jurors, headed by a middle-aged woman wearing a shiny new sash in the national colors of red, white and green, nervously took their oaths. Over the shouted objections of the defendants, the presiding magistrate appointed defense attorneys and the trial got under...