Word: dullness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dull and Resigned. The almost-forgotten men of the war-the U.N. prisoners still in Communist hands-were expected to start coming back through the Panmunjom exchange site within a week. The latest prisoner list tendered by the Reds showed 3,313 Americans, 8,186 South Koreans, 922 British Commonwealth, 342 others. Enemy prisoners who had opted for repatriation were to be brought north at the rate of more than...
...ended, I had seen one Japanese aircraft- one they showed us back in flight-training days." In Korea, enemy aircraft seemed as far away as ever: Bordelon was assigned to a prop-driven F-4U Corsair- no match for a MIG-15-and set about the essential but dull task of attacking Communist supply lines...
...work apart from the most sophisticated studio products. Without even elementary training in art, working by flickering lamps in their igloos, and using only the simplest tools on bone, ivory and the green, grey or black rocks of their Arctic home, the Eskimos told of what they knew: the dull strength of a musk ox, its heavy head lowered on thick shoulders; the rubbery, spreading massiveness of a sunning seal; the graceful curves of an otter's sleek body...
...London, British Middleweight (160 Ibs.) Champion Randy Turpin* scored a dull but decisive 15-round decision over France's Charles Humez. To settle the succession to the world title, vacated when Sugar Ray Robinson retired, Turpin will next meet the winner of the coming fight between Carl ("Bobo") Olson and Paddy Young...
...lost a match. Only one player ever got under Tilden's weather-beaten skin: France's Rene Lacoste, one of the famed "Four Musketeers" who wrested the Davis Cup from the U.S. in 1927. Remarked haughty Bill Tilden: "The monotonous regularity with which that unsmiling, drab, almost dull man returned the best I could hit ... often filled [me] with a wild desire to throw my racket...