Word: dulling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...flight to end. Their airliner, carrying 72 passengers in all, was a Soviet-made turboprop Ilyushin-18, vintage 1960, a far cry in comfort and speed from the kind of aircraft the Americans were used to. The plane was approaching Shanghai last week when a flight that had been dull suddenly became unforgettable...
...they were games. He has said, in fact, that life it self is a game, and "money is how you keep score," a statement that, given his history, seems to mean that he regards the score very seriously. At any rate, as if Georgia were a rather dull party and he the host obligated to enliven it, he has poured pots of money into the Braves and the Atlanta Hawks, a run-of-the-court pro basketball team...
...mention the songwriters, of the Gang--both musically and spiritually--are singer King and lead guitarist Andy Gill. Nowhere is this more clear than in concert, where these two soft revolutionaries direct one of the most frenzied and exciting live shows you'll was anywhere Resplendent in dull gray double-brested 1940s suits--sans cravate----the Gang is almost transformed into the radical leaders they so fervently desire...
Indeed, by far the most effective performers at the Philadelphia meeting were Kennedy and Mondale, both of whom delivered traditional stemwinders attacking Reagan and reaffirming the party's liberal principles. In his 30-min. address, Mondale, usually a dull, plodding speaker, was interrupted by applause 27 times. In his 40-min. speech, Kennedy, 7 Ibs. lighter and sporting new aviator glasses, was stopped 57 times by ovations. Some of this enthusiasm was due to the fact that midterm conclaves are usually packed with party activists, who tend to be liberal. Even so, the response served notice that Kennedy...
...husband and then, though she tried not to, she smiled. So did her husband, the Colorado oil millionaire who last year kicked their boy out of the house and this month wept as he testified: "I wish to God I could trade places with him right now." But the dull blue eyes of their wayward son, pasted like wafers on his expressionless face, avoided the gaze of those in the courtroom through the very end. What emotions swirled in his twisted psyche-a mystery that neither psychiatrists nor jury felt they could fathom-were kept inside. John Hinckley...