Word: prosaic
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...young scholarsof the 1950s, life in Cambridge was a fertile, and secure, world of its own. Coming from the rather prosaic and unstimulating setting of high schools and prep schools from across the country, students at Harvard faced a bewildering choice of pursuits to occupy their time, from academics to drama to athletics...
...fateful day in Dallas in 1963, journalists covering the President have been especially alert to the possibility that someone might try to take his life. That knowledge has brought a tinge of apprehension to even the most routine presidential assignments. TIME'S Dirck Halstead had just such a prosaic task last week: taking pictures of President Reagan at the Washington Hilton. Suddenly gunshots rang out. Halstead, who photographed one of the assassination attempts on Gerald Ford in 1975, was able to take some of the dramatic pictures that accompany this week's cover stories. Says Halstead...
Although computer buffs dream of the day when home computers will print movie tickets or order the groceries, such applications are still uncommon. The vast majority of personal computers are being bought by small businessmen, doctors and lawyers, who use them for prosaic things like record keeping, billing and checking inventories...
...vote funds for expensive new weaponry that provides jobs for key defense industries back home, rather than put the same money into something as mundane-but vital-as maintenance. It has also proved easier to get funds for designing ever more sophisticated weapons than to increase the supply of prosaic ones...
...generally recalled as stern, religious men who worked six days each week and prayed intently on the seventh. While there is some truth to that idea, Cantabrigians have never been boring. One orator remarked on the city's 250th anniversary, "Cambridge of that day cannot have been the dull, prosaic place we sometimes fancy when we think of a Puritan town. Life was varied by the excitements and perils of frontier life, mingled with the pomps and the crimes of a type of society now passed away." And politics, sport, society, culture--with more than a scattered drop of liquor...