Word: dullness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sound Barrier is a very misleading title. Those who expect a documentary on the development of supersonic aircraft will be only partially satisfied (1 for one don't even know whether the documentary is true).Others who will undoubtedly stay away from the film because they anticipate a dull, dry scientific account will miss an intense and subtle human drama...
...soft underbelly of complacency, and at its breathless wonder at the scope of its own accomplishments. The text of the parody, while not particularly applicable to the article in question, is a clever-enough adaptation of Time-style: "Earth then (156 billion B.C.) was barren, cold, lonely, dull." On the whole the satire is a clever idea, competently done...
...himself as a failure and a misfit. He had tried being a gambler, but could get nowhere with cards, dice or horses. Raised in Sausalito, a California town across the bay entrance from San Francisco, he had served three wartime years in the Navy as a radarman ("a long, dull tour of duty, mostly with convoys"), had then gone to college on the G.I. Bill. But he could not get interested in engineering, geology or salesmanship. Finally he got himself accepted for pilot training in the Air Force.The other cadets, mostly younger than he, called him "Dad." But when...
...free man. Wrote Editor Kilpatrick: "It is, for this newspaper, the end of a long trail-a trail at once heart-warming and heart-breaking." Silas Rogers, standing in a blue suit which he had made himself in the prison tailor shop for the occasion, looked up at a dull winter sky and said: "I've never seen it so beautiful...
...best political cartoonist. Socialist Low throve on cartooning for a Tory paper, at times sharply caricatured both his boss, .the Beaver, and the Conservative government. Three years ago, Low moved his cartoons to a paper closer to his own political views. He switched from the Standard to the dull, doctrinaire Daily Herald, official organ of the Labor party. Instead of pepping up the Herald as he was supposed to do, the Herald-and the fact that Labor was in power-seemed to dull down...