Word: dulls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...delegate authority has led him to fantastic time-consuming pettiness. Samples: recently he took over himself the granting of all entry and exit visas and the scrutiny of all currency exchange applications. But the U.S. military, diplomatic and technical experts, while noting the shortcomings, have not let them dull the conviction that Diem is Viet Nam's soundest hope. "After some doubts about Premier Diem," said one high U.S. official, "I think that they have been resolved in his favor and that he is entitled to full and unqualified support...
When the men performed, the U.S. show turned dull. Despite a record-breaking dash down the dangerous Nose Dive trail by Skeeter Werner's 19-year-old kid brother, Buddy, no American placed better than fifth in the combined scoring. Ahead of the U.S. entrants were such seasoned stars as Austria's Andreas Molterer, Japan's Chiharu Igaya (now a Dartmouth undergraduate) and France's Adrien Duvillard. Dartmouth Alumni Ralph Miller and Brooks Dodge finished fifth and seventh, and to fill out the eight-man U.S. Olympic team, the committee had to reach far back into...
...trout with lust for life. A canny angler, Novelist Hallinan, 34, uses enough bait for three regulation novels: 1) the English family, full of cooings, cluckings, crises and crumpets, 2) the adolescent caterpillar sprouting the butterfly wings of maturity, 3) the Panlike pipings of Bohemia competing with the dull drill calls of middle-class life. Novelist Hallinan's Pan is a fat, wheezing, believable genius named Jubial Kerr who huffs and puffs rude reality into Rough Winds of May. To the world at large, he is J. K., England's greatest painter. To the Kerr household...
...Though dull, to be sure...
Elsewhere, the world was moving out of doors. But from Corvallis, Ore., to Philadelphia, Pa., gymnasiums still echoed to the dull thwack of basketballs bouncing off backboards. Some time before the school year ends, the outsize collegians on the topflight U.S. basketball teams will have to buckle down to their homework, but this week they will be mainly occupied with somewhat less academic matters: the N.C.A.A. and the National Invitation tournaments...