Word: dullnesses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...boom. Until recently, the U.S. has not been exporting any more food than it did after World War I. But in July and August, grain exports increased to an alltime peak. The traders also put the blame on the blundering way the Government bought. Instead of buying only in dull markets, it hopped in & out of the market, paying no attention to the available supply of spot grain...
...Journals bored Gide, long stretches that passed without entries: "I am keeping this journal without pleasure, as an exercise and without any care for the interest I may ever take in rereading it. . . . No more interest in keeping this journal. . . . I interrupt this journal, which is reduced to the dull notation of facts. Good [he wrote after 23 years of keeping it] solely as a way of getting into the habit of writing." In spite of flashes of cold, Gidean brilliance, most readers will probably feel the same way about the Journals...
From the editors of '47, the contributor-owned "magazine of the year," came the confession of the year. "Up to now, '47 has let everybody down," admitted a postcard from the editors to all subscribers. "Instead of being notable, it's been flat, dull, ordinary...
...watched Brazilian women curtsy to Dom Pedro III, pretender to Brazil's non-existent throne (the party's cost: $5,000). This week, with party after party set for the Truman visit, delegates' wives would have no more time for bridge and letter-writing. After three dull weeks, the gaudy ex-gambling palace in the valley of fog was finally coming into...
...Unscrupulousness. With Screwtape's success, Lewis became a celebrity. A man who could talk theology without pulling a long face or being dull was just what a lot of people in war-beleaguered Britain wanted. The BBC put Lewis on the air and for three years his short, plain-spoken broadcasts on what Christians believe made him, for his listeners, almost as synonymous with religion as the Archbishop of Canterbury. The R.A.F. even chose him as a kind of Christian-at-large to visit air bases and discuss theology...