Word: bland
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Attending the bull session were ten boys and half as many girls, most handpicked from the Freshman Register. Apparently the photographer thought the group looked too bland, because he scouted the decor of other rooms in the entry until he found a wall-size collage of nudes. It served as a back-drop, covering the staid maps which usually adorn Kelman's walls...
Brown, in consequence, has recast his campaign tactics, no longer harps on the charge that Reagan is a right-wing extremist. Instead, the Governor is emphasizing Reagan's lack of administrative experience. Reagan, in turn, is convinced that Californians are simply bored with Brown's bland, avuncular personality and is now campaigning cautiously on the assumption, as one of his top advisers puts it, that "we're ahead -let's not blow...
...nine Communist nations* gathered for a secret summit and a show of Soviet spaceshots. Not long ago, such a gathering would inevitably result in barbed blasts at the West accompanied by the rattle of rockets or the slap of brick on mortar. Not so last week. In their bland communiqué, there was not one howl at the "imperialists," not one threat of "burial." Indeed, the haste with which the meeting was called implied a response to Washington initiatives rather than a new move by Moscow. What the Reds talked about remained a mystery. Presumably, the question of coping with...
...here, too, one encounters ambivalence. Mothers for Adequate Welfare (MAW) is a group of Roxbury mothers on welfare. A Mrs. Bland, staff worker for MAW, said that members of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), many of them white college students (described by Carmichael as the "kids who go to Europe one summer and to Alabama the next"), were the ones who got MAW started. "I wouldn't trade them for anything in the world," she said. "We don't care whether you're blue, purple, or brown with yellow polka dots, we want you to work with...
...reporters were accustomed to more stimulating press-conference re freshment. But if the Coca-Cola served at the Pentagon last week seemed bland, the ice that cooled it was something else again. That ice, announced Army scientists, was formed from snow that fell around the time that Christ was born. It had been taken from...