Word: bland
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Even if the colonel's remarks seemed oddly bland, he knew that the stakes are high in the Honduran war games. For one thing, the Big Pine exercises are taking place next door to revolutionary Nicaragua, a country the Reagan Administration considers to be a dangerous Marxist-Leninist force in the hemisphere, with ties to Cuba and the Soviet Union. For another, El Salvador is also in the neighborhood, and although the Administration has consistently ruled out the possibility of sending U.S. troops to fight leftist guerrillas there, American advisers in Honduras have begun training Salvadoran soldiers...
...Penn. Around a wheezing plot about a young investigative reporter trying to get the Big Story (a U.S. Congressman turns out to be-gasp!-corrupt), Ryan writes knowledgeably about libel law, newsroom computerization, labor disputes, inheritance taxes and galleys of other forces threatening to turn American newspapers into bland copies of one another...
Driver José Antonio Blandón, 28, was concentrating on potholes when a band of perhaps 50 armed men suddenly appeared in front of his Chevrolet pickup. As Blandón and two others in the cab ducked under the dashboard, rifle shots rang out for what seemed to them to be several minutes. After the firing stopped, a contra peered into the cab. He ordered the three men to get out and, some minutes later, to carry two passengers, an injured woman and her six-month-old daughter, to a nearby house. Once inside, the woman died...
Nicaraguan officials were quick to claim that the contras had been responsible for similar massacres of civilians in the past. But one of Blandón's friends had a different explanation. According to him, the Sandinista soldier had opened fire as soon as he saw the contras approaching, thereby provoking the savage reprisal...
...Japanese rock scene is largely bland...