Word: unspectacularly
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...Ohio's governor, Lausche has been competent but unspectacular. Except for two years (1948-50) he has had to deal with a Republican legislature that has choked off a good many Lausche plans for Ohio. But the governor is undeniably conservative, and his relations with the legislature have been generally amicable. The G.O.P. has found Lausche's frugal fiscal policies especially gratifying. Although its revenue has nearly trebled (from $396 million to $1,019,759,404). Ohio has not voted a general tax increase during the Lausche decade. The governor runs the state on a tight annual budget...
Untouched by professional coaching. Dave Stephens has copied his style from the great Czech Emil Zatopek. During the World Youth Festival at Bucharest in 1953, the two men became friends. An unspectacular performer at Bucharest, Stephens came home and began to break Australian records right and left. Often the races were run in foul weather, and often Dave ran barefoot. He could not afford track shoes...
...Though unspectacular, Hynes has done creditable work. As this cannot be said of his opponent, Hynes deserves another term in office...
...toward week's end, the setting changed. The steel-grey Hudson and its heroic cliffs gave place to the Nittany Valley of Pennsylvania, rolling placidly southeast from the low green humps of Bald Eagle Ridge. Skies turned to unspectacular grey, and as the President dressed in gold-tasseled cap and gown walked out onto the campus of Pennsylvania State University to receive an honorary doctorate of laws and address a second graduating class, it was raining-not a downpour, but a thick, unspectacular drizzle...
...Army band tootled Hearts of Stone, 787 Canadian infantrymen trudged down the gangplank of a U.S. Navy transport in Seattle harbor one day last week. They were officers and men of the 2nd Battalion, Queen's Own Rifles of Canada, heading home after a year of exacting but unspectacular service along the Korean truce line...