Word: dulling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Disease-dysentery, malaria, beriberi-Was always a threat. Guards insisted that prisoners put down their mosquito netting at night. Occasionally P.O.W.s received injections-with painfully dull needles-of quinine and vitamins. Three weeks before their release, rations were doubled and the P.O.W.s were given straw mats for bedding; Utecht sensed that his imprisonment would soon end. As a souvenir, he smuggled out a leg chain that was used to shackle prisoners...
...very ordinary young man-quiet, soberly dressed, dull. He did not take much interest in politics, or international affairs, or indeed anything except sex and the weather. His name was Franco, and his passport said he was a European. It did not sound as odd as it had done eleven years earlier; in 1973 no one would have thought of introducing himself at a cocktail party with "Hello, I'm a European." People were French, or English, or German, or Italian. Never European. The only people who used the word in those days were Americans, who invested geographical proximity...
...decided that he would shoot a few frames of the Inauguration from the stands behind the President, where he had recorded other Inaugurations. He dug out his big plaid coat, called a Wooldea, purchased for $19.95 the previous fall in Canada. Its bright blue and brown would liven a dull...
...himself not only of daily routines, which dull perception, but of the imprisoning past itself, body knows my personal history old man explains in Ixtlan. 'Nobody knows who I am or what I do. Not even I we either take everything for sure and real or we don't. If we follow the first oath we get bored to death with ourselves and the world. If we follow the second and erase personal history, we create a fog around us, a very exciting and mysterious state...
...will check up on why her expensive South African stable has not had a winner in months. The reason turns out to be pretty obvious, and Francis goes on to other things. Alas for faithful readers, the book offers a big scene in the bowels of a gold mine, dull exposition on how gold is obtained from rock, and some chatter about the racial question that makes one hope that wanderlust never leads Francis to a Navajo reservation...