Word: humdrum
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Sixty strong, they pushed into the Ohio Governor's small suite in the Mayflower Hotel. Here, after all the humdrum bureau interviews, was fair game: a real, live presidential candidate on a self-built bandwagon. The pink-cheeked candidate looked as if he expected a rough ride...
...dawn of 1944, the Invasion Year, fingering through the Channel mists, lights a new Britain. This is not the Britain of Stratford, of grazing sheep, of humdrum shopkeepers running an empire; not a Britain sorely wounded but unconquered by the Luftwaffe; not a Britain brooding over Tobruk, sighing with relief after El Alamein. This is a Britain in the full tide of action, of imminent victory...
Then, after she lands him, she discovers it means a hideous humdrum life in a joint like Ypsilanti...
...People," said the late, large Gilbert Keith Chesterton, "have fallen into a foolish habit of speaking of orthodoxy as something heavy, humdrum, and safe. There never was anything so perilous or so exciting as orthodoxy. It was sanity: and to be sane is more dramatic than to be mad. . . . It is always easy to let the age have its head; the difficult thing is to keep...
...words originated in man's characteristic gestures of the tongue and lips (e.g., blowing air through the larynx while making the gestures of eating produces mnyum, mnyuh). Dr. Thorndike calls this the "yum-yum" theory, waves it aside with the others as inadequate. His own explanation is "a humdrum affair": man discovered words by sheer accident...