Word: bland
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bland and unassuming Northwesterners suddenly close ranks against the wild man from the East. His teaching career in ruins, saddled with Pauline Gilley and her two children, Levin departs-uncertain to the very end whether he is Pauline's savior or her victim...
...college for the academic elite, and against making it a "pre-graduate" school. He saw a real danger that the kind of student body he did so much to shape was to be replaced by a sterile, super-intellectual community. For his strongly-worded warnings the release substitutes bland sentiments ranging in age from 10 to 50 years...
...Dean Wilbur J. Bender's final report on admissions is a stunning and appalling investigation of the trend of College policy which virtually demolishes the bland, mousy optimism of last year's Faculty Admissions report under a cascade of facts...
Since the visit was not official, neither guest was offered lodging at Blair House; Sukarno paid for the best suite at the Mayflower Hotel, and Keita stayed at the Mali embassy. At the airport, Kennedy seemed grim as he shook hands with the visitors, gave a bland speech of welcome that pointed up his own concern for peace. Wearing his customary sunglasses, pitji (pillbox hat) and rows of ribbons, fun-loving President Sukarno-who, during the recent Belgrade conference of neutralists, had spent many of his off-duty hours cavorting in a nightclub called the Snakepit-answered that he hoped...
Mustached Man. Abbas' bland parliamentary manner had brought the French to negotiations but not to terms. Since a 1957 auto accident in Morocco, he has increasingly suffered from headaches, dizzy spells, and an inability to concentrate for long periods at a time. Clearly, Ferhat Abbas and the other moderates of his Cabinet had outlived their usefulness to the F.L.N.'s tough revolutionaries...