Word: staggeringly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ordinariness (even morally commendable ordinariness) is closely akin to plain dullness. Frequently The Negro Cowboys slows down to a heavy-footed stagger. Since Negroes were at home in Western society, reminiscences about their exploits get just as mawkish as any Western yarns...
...occupied the country for 22 brutal years. The Haitians banned all foreign priests, severed papal relations, closed the University of Santo Domingo, and levied confiscatory taxes. Not until 1844, when Haiti was torn by one of its many civil wars, did the Dominican Republic finally break free?only to stagger through 22 revolutions over the next 70 years, including a brief period (1861-65) when it once again reverted to Spanish rule...
Without depth, the Middies have to count on victories from their front-line performers. The Harvard stars can stagger a little and the team will still stand...
Dawn was breaking as a trio of trucks and Jeeps rolled into the grounds of the Red Chinese embassy in Burundi's lakeside capital of Bujumbura. Steel-helmeted Burundi troops stood by, watching rows of Chinese stagger out of the low, grey stucco building carrying luggage and huge bundles of documents. Then Peking's Ambassador Liu Yu-feng and his wife glumly entered a black Mercedes for the trip to the airport, where an Ethiopian Airways DC-6 stood waiting. The airport porters were most emphatically ordered not to touch so much as a suitcase handle...
...perhaps the bizarre point of the entire show, lies in the tandem casting of Stanwyck and Taylor, in private life one of Hollywood's most celebrated Mr. and Mrs. teams prior to their 1951 divorce. To stage a family reunion in a mediocre horror film may not stagger the general public, but it will assuredly give marriage counselors the creeps...