Word: humdrum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...just the opposite: single women, 18 to 34, who are not knockouts, who are unsure of themselves, who are searching for a man. It is a recipe concocted by Editor Helen Gurley Brown, 45, author of the bestselling Sex and the Single Girl, and it has turned a humdrum publication of women's features into a sort of female Playboy. Since the winsome Mrs. Brown took over three years ago, circulation has increased 16%, to more than 900,000, ad revenues have more than doubled, to $3,600,000. Mrs. Brown likes to think of her magazine...
Every now and then, the Youth and Sports minister rounds up as many young people as he can find, and insists they get organized and name some leaders. But modernization in Adzope is such a humdrum thing that nobody seems much to care...
Kentucky: Nunn Better One of the few bright touches in Kentucky's humdrum gubernatorial race was provided by an irreverent underground slogan: "Half an Oaf Is Better than Nunn." Republican Candidate Louie B. Nunn, 43, a back-country lawyer who in years past managed the successful senatorial campaigns of John Sherman Cooper and Thruston Morton, countered with his own vaguely punny slogan: "Tired of War? Vote Nunn." Kentuckians chose Nunn. Defeating Democrat Henry Ward, 58, a former highway commissioner handpicked by retiring Governor Edward Breathitt, Nunn became the first Republican Governor elected in Kentucky since...
...theory, a superintendent or principal is a top teacher who has earned promotion; shoving him aside seems self-defeating, even from the teachers' viewpoint. Yet the best teachers tend to shun administrative chores, particularly detest the humdrum courses in educational administration that many states require in order to qualify for supervisory posts. One result, concedes B. Frank Brown, the innovation-minded superintendent of Florida's Brevard County, is that many administrators are "former coaches, who get by with a pitch, a smile and flimflam." Others become mere paper-shufflers...
...right to dismiss it summarily, since everyone knows that among the jeunesse doree this sort of thing goes on all the time, so why bother describing it. But certainly you're not going to admit that jet set "secrets and morals" don't go beyond occasional, normal, heterosexual, humdrum, friendly encounters? Be bored with something more exciting, please...