Word: dullnesses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After telling his listeners to discard the "native attitude" that the Foreign Service is a "romance of glamour and purple intrigue," Maddox pointed out that every officer has to do a large amount of hard, and frequently dull, routine work...
Cato & Mr. Shylock. It was a typical day at the Assembly. Beyond the dull-orange doors, guarded by U.N.'s own police in bluish-grey uniforms, sat the spectators (mostly matrons and students) in a subdued glow of public spirit. From the rostrum at the far end of the huge hall, Russia's Andrei Vishinsky faced them. A proposal had been made by Argentina to submit the veto question to the "Little Assembly" for examination. Vishinsky fulminated against it, exploded with similes: ". . . They are repeating day after day 'the veto must be destroyed'; like Cato...
Tuesday is a dull shopping day in Christchurch, New Zealand. At 4 p.m. last Tuesday there were hardly more shoppers than clerks in Ballantyne's, biggest department store in South Island. Many of the staff, following Christchurch custom, were at afternoon tea or were just ambling back to their counters. They smelled fire and saw wisps of smoke but, told that firemen were arriving, carried on with their jobs. Then, in a twinkling, the acre-wide building was a pillar of flame. Fire broke from the shallow basement, seared the main floor, exploded upward to the second and third...
...garden. Her life became the hundreds & hundreds of poems-many without form but few without magical phrasing-that made her, among other things, a "humorist of agony." Playwright Gardner writes of Emily appreciatively enough, but Eastward in Eden is neither very poetic nor very dramatic, and is often downright dull...
...account can make the 7,689-mile journey of Lewis & Clark seem dull, nor has any account, including this one, ever quite seemed to do it justice...