Word: dulls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...shade and people around me started to stamp their feet. The field seemed immensely far away and apparently no one paid much attention to what was going on. People talked, shouted, and little boys ran up and won the aisles, and everyone ate. There was a vast dull munching throughout the stadium. In the fourth inning the Red Sox, who were one run behind at this point, staged a rally and with a few hits changed the score completely. The rally drove everyone to the near edge of frenzy; the man behind me spat and snarled with delight...
...some of the busiest and most valuable corners of the world's life while quick and fascinating currents of thought and life surged around and past them . . . islands of slumbering inactivity amidst the urgent flow of public affairs . . . Second, two particular churches where [I] sat on under dull, mournful, interminable preaching by two elderly gentlemen in funereal black robes-undoubtedly sincere but . . . rather futile . . . The peripheral lethargy if not laziness of the church, the ineptitude if not stupidity of the ministry-irrevelance and futility-these are the two most ineffaceable deposits from early associations...
...issue's longest offering. The story is a piece of analytic reminiscence about the courting days of a New York high school couple. Banker writes without subtlety: most of the gestures and remarks of his characters are interpreted in his prose. Much of the story is dull and some of it is riddled with cliches--"And again, for reasons unknown, the tone of their conversation has changed. They speak in low, intimate voices: something has created a bond between them...
...secretly to the Pacific in 1952 and who was not allowed to let even his wife know where he had been until last week) could hardly be blamed for doing his conscientious best in the role assigned him. But a great deal of his job was devoted to the dull and time-filling task of identifying various dignitaries who stood, embarrassed but proud, before the camera for their due share of glory...
...season, Manhattan averages at least one first-rate art show (as against dozens of dull ones) every week. Last week's most exciting show fell to the Kootz Gallery, which hung ten weird canvases by a controversial Frenchman named Georges Mathieu. The exhibition was almost bound to draw as many boos as bouquets, but none could deny its forcefulness...