Word: dulled
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Last week along the Jersey coast the rain fell and the grey Atlantic heaved in a 15-ft. swell. But some freighter crews, some fishermen, rolling under bare steerage way, saw a sight that made them forget the dull, grey weather. They heard the thunder of engines, saw the mist ripped open by a trim, broad bow, saw a tiny boat skim by, skittering off the tops of waves, pelting through others in a burst of spindrift. On her bridge they caught a quick glimpse of hooded men, goggled, drenched with spray, hanging on behind a tiny windshield...
Hollywood can forget quickly. Two days after it was over, the national election was as dated as last week's newsreel, as dull as last week's gossip. The local election was a different story. Unseated after twelve years was Los Angeles' redbaiting Republican District Attorney Buron Fitts, who has more titillating Hollywood scandal under his bonnet than a dog has fleas. With just an occasional heckle from the film colony's left wing because of his unvarying kindness to the industry's big shots, Fitts sashayed complacently through his duties without any qualms about...
...Leiserson. No grassgreen mediator, 67-year-old Dr. Millis has been listening to labor disputes for 20 years. No stranger to NLRB, he had served on the Board once before, in 1934-35 under NRA. Emeritus professor of economics at the University of Chicago, he has written scholarly, dull, copiously annotated books. As a mediator he is known for oxlike patience, horse sense. His present job: permanent conciliator between General Motors Corp. and C. I. O.'s United Automobile Workers...
Politically the significance was enormous. To British home morale it was a bracer so stiff that even the terrific bombardment of Coventry (see p. 20) could not dull it. It served notice on Germany that the Italian Navy was a dangerously impotent ally. It gave the Greeks, and other interested small nations, profound new respect for the Royal Navy. It convinced many a formerly hopeless U. S. citizen that the British Empire could sufficiently take care of itself to deserve all the help it could get, and by seriously reducing Axis sea power made the seas that much freer...
...Allentown, Pa., had just settled down to their hazardous day's work one morning last week. They were making sensitive detonators for blasting, TNT for the Navy, smokeless powder for the Army. It was around 8:30 when they heard it, a sound anyone could recognize, the dull boom like the slamming of an underground door. Sixty miles to the east, at Woodbridge, N. J., the dust and debris settled over what had been the plant of United Railway Signal Corp., over a horrible group of ragged bundles that had been two men, six women...