Word: dulling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...years on the election circuit are ordinarily dull routines. Last Tuesday's elections were no different, but many political observers were watching what appeared would be the first test of Watergate's impact on the Republican Party and on American voting patterns...
...Mean Streets a group of dull young men who live in New York City's Little Italy are anxious not to rile the Mafia if they cannot impress it. So they tiresomely hang around bars, pool halls and street corners, punching and grunting at one another until, as their mothers must have warned them, someone gets hurt...
...greets you almost as soon as you arrive in Syria's capital. At perhaps 25,000 ft. over this city of mosques and markets, an Israeli jet, easily visible to the eye, explodes in a tiny flash and a puff of whitish smoke. Seconds later, a dull thump is heard as it crashes to the ground. The fighter plane was the victim of a "Soviet SAM," as Damascenes call their wonder weapon. The successes of the Soviet missiles are a major reason why the almost 900,000 citizens of Damascus seem relatively relaxed and unworried, even though...
...obtaining both hard news and perspective. Nonetheless, there can be hazards. Journalists who enjoy unusual entrée on the political heights can raise the eyebrows of less-favored colleagues. Even a newsman of Reston's integrity and prestige risks the suspicion that a particular relationship can dull his critical edge when he comments on that official...
...York City, Max Toth, president of the Toth Pyramid Co., claims that his cardboard Pyramid Razor Blade Sharpener (price: $3.50) will more than pay for itself by producing blades that never dull. Evering Associates, which markets Toth's products in Canada, says they can be used to dehydrate tropical fish for display purposes. Small stuff, perhaps, but Inventor Patrick Flanagan, who sells his own pyramid line in Glendale, Calif., reports that the device has improved his sexual sensitivity...