Word: dulling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...parted; President Bok announced the appointment of Henry Rosovsky, Taussig Research Professor of Economics, to the second most powerful position in the University. The appointment sparked a rejuvenation of Faculty meetings; Bok, relieved to know that his choice would soon sit in the dean's chair, suddenly approached the dull Faculty business with a sense of humor. The Faculty began to laugh, and their enthusiasm for the new dean washed away the residue of uncertainty leftover from the last few months. Forgotten were the meetings when Bok chain smoked for two hours straight...
...Dull Scrimmage...
...Crimson and the Bruins met in a scrimmage earlier this year, fighting up to a dull standstill. They both have had most of a season to jell, however, so today's game should offer some exciting differences...
...cold and windy in Providence, R.I., the day I was there. And dreary. And I sat through a scrimmage with Brown, in which no one did anything to show anyone anything. It was a dull afternoon...
Long ago, in the sane dull Washington of 1958, Journalist Allen Drury wrote his first novel-the one for which he is remembered-Advise and Consent. That was a blowsy, likable, jump-all-over-you book, about a Senate battle against confirmation of a Secretary of State; about a band of stalwart lawmakers, including one Senator being blackmailed for homosexuality; about a society hostess, and so on. It made a great read. It won Drury the Pulitzer Prize, which he even perhaps deserved: he had had the energy to people a big novel with a lot of boldly drawn characters...