Word: humdrum
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Above the humdrum buzz of the U.S. Senate caucus room, where a special committee met last week to consider censure action against Senator Joseph R. McCarthy, rose a throaty monotone in a familiar refrain: "Just a minute, Mr. Chairman, just one minute...
After half an hour of prayers and anthems, it was all over. Queen Elizabeth hurried away to prepare for Ascot Week festivities, and Sir Winston Churchill, K.G., returned to London and the humdrum 20th century business of being Prime Minister...
...close of her academic career--for she must retire this June--Helen Cam surveys a scholarly past filled with the sense of her own growth. Almost half a century ago she backed away from humdrum Victorianism into a medieval world. "I was just a regular romantic," she recalls. Today, her historical knowledge permeates her speech and the arguments with which she defends her deeply held political opinions. Although raised in a Conservative household, she joined the Labor party and stumped the countryside making speeches for the candidates--it was her job to hold the crowd until the great man arrived...
...come to no other conclusion than that you deliberately made your Notre Dame football hero cover picture your corniest in years, filled the story with a collection to end all collections of the humdrum idiocies of professional sports, spicing it with the phony baloney, barstool oratory, synthetic manliness, and parroting of "statistics" and "history" by the sports...
...legislation the Storting enacted bore the humdrum title, "Law of Prices and Competition Regulations, etc.," but after reading all the small print, a Norwegian shipowner cried, "Which side of the Iron Curtain is Norway on?" The law empowers the government to control prices, profits, methods of calculating business costs, terms of delivery, ways of payment, quality of products, distribution of output, "and other controls . . . on conditions governing trade...