Word: dulling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Crimson played a methodical, if not a somewhat dull brand of basketball, which Jarvis said was caused by a "let-down" after Thursday night's rough game against a formerly undefeated Tufts freshman squad...
...throwing out the technocrats in favor of men, mostly in their 50s and 60s, who are known mainly for their: fanatical loyalty to el Caudillo. "They are a group of gray men whose thinking stopped with the Civil War in 1936," laments an opposition spokesman. "They are a very dull...
...Neither Biographer Marzio's scholarly research nor the cartoonist's own occasional triumphs- he won a Pulitzer Prize for a cartoon in 1947 - can disguise the fact that the man had lost his inspired, raffish touch; most of his late work was simply dull. All of which poses a question: How can a person leave this or any similar book half unread without feeling the slightest qualm? With a bow to Professor Butts, one answer might be the cartoon below...
...silence that followed the warning sirens was broken by the dull thud of exploding bombs. Sirens wailed again, this time directing ambulance crews to the wounded. Bach Mai Hospital suffered the first of many direct hits. Homes and schools crumpled under the onslaught, and the night sky lit up with strings of smaller explosions. Rescue teams poked through wrecked buildings, searching for wounded people trapped beneath the rubble. The dead lay silent...
Some 225 miles to the south, the Delta presents a vivid contrast. Driving down Highway 4, which links Saigon with its rice bowl, buses and military convoys vie irritably for space on the narrow asphalt road, amidst foul-smelling cyclones of black exhaust. There is a dull thud or two of mortar and a burst of machine-gun fire in palm trees half a mile to the south. Women stooping in the paddyfields don't even bother to look up. "Just a couple of guerrillas," sighs the driver...