Word: dullness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...station, and the trains seldom stop. U.S. Highway 223 bypasses Clayton, and except for nearby farmers, few people stop there, either. It is a poor little place: half a dozen old red brick buildings, two gasoline stations, a few blocks of houses, a few sheds. Clayton is a dull, insular village, not friendly to outsiders...
...last fortnight, shocked and startled, Clayton learned more about the holdup-and about itself. After nearly two months of silent brooding in the red brick jail at Adrian, young Simpson talked. Floyd McFall, full of dull anger at being ostracized and in fear of going broke, had put him up to the robbery, he said, and had agreed to hide him and help him get away afterward. McFall was jailed. Police said that he confessed, but at Simpson's trial McFall denied any part in the holdup...
...Pang's dull-eyed and incoherent widow and their four children, they huddled in a 15-by-30-ft. tent, which they shared with three others in a Pusan slum. Cardboard stuffed along the sides blocked out some of the cold, but in the middle of the room a pan of water froze quite hard. At week's end nobody from the Army had called on the family; a spokesman explained that "no administrative procedures have been drawn" to handle this sort of thing...
...time for the raucous cries of a quarterback, the groans of heavily-laden gentlemen smashing each other on hot May afternoons, and the dull grind and drill that is spring practice. Athletes at least receive rewards in intercollegiate competition in season; if spring practice's adherents were logical, they might suggest that Harvard play football against Yale in spring as well as fall...
Duplication is not the only weakness the committee found. Whether repeating themselves or not, most of the boys are not getting as much out of college as they should. Superior students suffer from having to keep pace with the dull ones, and too few ever learn just what a liberal education is all about. What U.S. education needs, says the committee, is a complete overhaul of the years between the second year of prep school and the third year of college. Among its suggestions...