Word: dullest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bears are the dullest team in pro football- to anybody but a connoisseur of crunch. They hug the ground defiantly, pass only under duress, rank No. 8 in the fourteen-team N.F.L. m scoring (with 233 points) and No. 11 in total offense (with 3,329 yds.). That kind of football is hardly calculated to win friends and influence fans: last month, when the Bears beat the lowly Los Angeles Rams 6-0 on the strength of two field goals they played most of the second half to the accompaniment of home-town boos But the Bears make no excuses...
...what will probably be the dullest game of the day, Columbia will slaughter Penn. Although the Lions may still be recovering from a severe attack by Dartmouth, Penn was ineffectual against Yale and has shown a pronounced weakness in its pass defense system. The only reason Harvard did not win was the Crimson's inability to hold its own passes. Penn really did not interfere very much with this part of the Harvard game...
Occasional scenes did penetrate the torpor induced by the first half-hour, surely one of the dullest film segments produced by Hollywood in a long while. But for the most part PT 109 was horrendous, devoted primarily to showing off Cliff Robertson's repertoire of facial expressions, all of which seemed to be subtle variations of a smirkish half-smile...
...platitudes; his improbable plot is no more than an unwieldy vehicle to parade Wylie's ideas on desegregation, prejudice, sex, miscegenation, brotherly love and a swarm of other fascinating topics. Unfortunately for the novel, Wylie's ideas of these and all other matters are insipid. His book is the dullest piece of writing you can find anywhere on the best-seller list...
...than are dreamt of in Mr. Cohen's analysis. The rest of Canada is obviously bored and tired with Mr. Diefenbaker (save the fervently pro-Diefenbaker prairie provinces). But Mr. Pearson has failed to ignite a spark either. And it must be remembered that Canada's most tiring and dullest Prime Minister was MacKenzie King--and he held office for 27 years! Thomas A. Hockin Graduate School of Public Administration...