Word: prosaic
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...indomitable Dutch had production rolling in the N. V. Philips Co.'s huge, bomb-pocked electrical manufacturing plant at Eindhoven. In addition to high-priority electrical gadgets for the Allied armies, production at Eindhoven included such prosaic, civilian essentials as pots and pans...
...star of the film is young Elizabeth Taylor, who won her first laurels in "Lassie Come Home." As a starry-eyed less with a passionate love for horses, she turns in a thoroughly captivating performance, and almost by herself prevents this picture from being merely a prosaic repetition of earlier films in this series...
...Prosaic Thriller. The prosaic facts about El Gitano were as exciting as the corrido. He was the leader of an outlaw-band which often held up big mining companies on pay day, distributed the payroll to poor mountaineers. An illiterate former peon, El Gitano paid his debts by holding out a huge roll of bills. Creditors took what they liked. His "G," scrawled on a .38 bullet, was a safe-conduct pass through Sinaloa's lonely hills...
Virginius Dabney has arrived at his liberal views by patient, thoughtful effort and constant conflict with his patrician heritage. His editorials, ground out with painful slowness, are almost pedantically preoccupied with both sides of the question. They are invariably prosaic and humorless. His advocacy last year of the abolition of Jim Crow busses and streetcars in Virginia, which set the whole South on its ear, was put forward in a quiet editorial entitled "The Conservative Course in Race Relations." Excerpt: "Many Virginians probably do not know it, but we have now arrived at the point where radicals from the North...
...final shot in this half-shot column we have selected as our guest writer the eminent poet, Gilbert M. Cross. At present, Mr. Cross is working on a revision of Business School case books. Soon, all cases will be presented in a more lyrical, less prosaic style. The following will be heard years from now as our posterity sits in on a Transportation class...