Word: dullness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...plight of the nation's farmers, viewed from urban insularity, is generally seen as either a dull academic question or a potential trouble-maker in the November elections. Hucksters of both parties have made the "farm problem," a matter of narrow interest, using a flood of paper panaceas to obscure the real existence of a weak sector of the economy. Careless subsidy plans, log-rolling, and philosophical battle cries have replaced intelligent efforts to solve one of the nation's most important domestic problems...
...some circles religion has become an opiate of the people. Present day Christianity is to many people tame and prosaic, prim and dull ... Too many of us have lost Christ's call to heroism and have grown comfortable and commonplace, small in our minds and imaginations. The Christian church has become too much an ambulance, dragging along behind, picking up the wounded, making bandages, and soothing hurt feelings, when the church should be out on the front line, getting hit in the face, but leading others and conquering the enemy...
...trancelike, the Indians accepted the Nehru raj from Lord Louis Mountbatten, the last British viceroy. Baba teeters girlishly between the superstitious past (as a child she had retched over a dead fish's eye, which she tried to swallow in order to summon up strange powers) and the dull independent future, symbolized by her dull, enlightened father, who talks like an instructor in social science...
Like just about everything Bates has written, The Sleepless Moon is well carpentered, easily written, and well calculated to shorten a train ride or add pleasure to a tall drink. In a small English town, Constance is married to the town grocer, a man so respectable, correct and dull that passion has no chance. His comfortable household runs like a metronome, but his bed has a built-in deepfreeze. Not only does the virginal Constance wait in vain on her wedding night, she waits in vain, period...
Donald Fleming, "this budget is as dull as dishwater, and it fell as flat as a pancake." Parliament, in general, shared Tory Fleming's disappointment with the stand-pat budget brought down by Finance Minister Walter Harris (TIME, April...