Word: dulls
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Elsewhere in Europe the weather was better on the first of May, but everywhere the Communists' annual spring rites seemed dampened and dull. Europe's Communists were still reeling from the blow of the Atlantic Treaty. No matter how loudly party leaders shouted, the Russians had backed down in Berlin. Some observers believed that this was the big break-that Russia was in fact suing for a settlement in Europe to devote all her energies to the Red drive in Asia...
...unsmiling, delicately pushed out of shape. A few months before he died, Bérard had portrayed himself sitting like a somewhat damp but proud Bacchus on a beach. The painting conveyed the subtlety of his seemingly careless draftsmanship and the atmospheric shimmer he could evoke from a few dull colors...
...Subscriber Goodkind mend his talk." A brilliant and painstaking editor, he emitted yelps of delight at a writer's bright phrases, and despairing grunts when his plump red pencil (a special batlike one, three-eighths of an inch thick) had to be used to jab life into dull ones. He insisted on the use of a few stock phrases ("As it must to all men, Death came . . .") as a trademark. The double-jointed adjectives and inverted sentences of the early days of TIME were tricks that he and Luce, both Greek scholars, had learned from Homer. Hadden applied them...
...morning mail, which traditionally brings to sports desks a series of dull publicity releases, dropped a horrifying little document at 14 Plympton St. the other morning. It was entitled, "Preliminary Prospectus, 1949 Stanford University Football Team." Running to six closely written pages, this report painted a picture of the Crimson's first 1949 opponent which was matched only by the ghastly verbal report delivered by Art Valpey at the football luncheon Monday...
...varsity lacrosse team felt dull and logy yesterday afternoon. The players, their minds on the all-important Dartmouth game coming up this Saturday, were definitely...