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Word: dulling (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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General Hospital (8) If malpractice is this dull, it is worth insuring against. The only successful therapy offered is by Denise Alexander, who plays sensuous Dr. Leslie Williams...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: TIME Rates the Soaps | 1/12/1976 | See Source »

...soap sponsor, P&G runs the shows from Cincinnati with Kremlin-like authority. P & G's six serials (which also include Edge of Night, Somerset and Search for Tomorrow) are reworkings of conventional material and have little of the dash of the newer dramas. "I guess we're awfully dull," admits Joe Willmore, who directs the writers of As the World Turns. "I hate to say it, but I don't want to preach to people about social mores. I want to be largely accepted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Sex and Suffering in the Afternoon | 1/12/1976 | See Source »

...near the end of the second 50-mile lap, the Laughlin 300 has become a numbing routine. The dull ache at the base of my neck spreads downward into the cavities separating each vertebra. As Evans slows for a 20-second refueling stop, I get out. The race will last five more hours. Only 31 of the 111 cars that started will finish, not including Evans' Chevy-a transmission seal blew. I'm certainly not a winner. Nevertheless I walk from Walker's smoking truck with a trophy: an empty barf...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: 115-m.p.h. Madness | 12/22/1975 | See Source »

...hundred times the will. He was an Italian made skeptical by Voltaire, subtle by the ruses of survival in the Revolution, sharp by the daily duel of French intellects." The historians dis play such artistry too sparingly. Still, these most popular popularists are incapable of writing a dull book or a trivial one. The Age of Napoleon is not their best book, but it is their last. Readers can mourn that statement - and celebrate the fact that the Durants have contributed so much to the American under standing of that most foreign country, the past...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Age of the Durants | 12/15/1975 | See Source »

...dull MP's in close proximity...

Author: By Paul K. Rowe, | Title: G & S Without Peers | 12/11/1975 | See Source »

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