Word: blandes
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...public, traditionally suspicious of striped-pants diplomats, he looks disarmingly undiplomatic. His roly-poly shape, bland face, crinkly eyes, thick spectacles and thinning grey hair give him the friendly air of a delicatessen-keeper. His accent sounds like purest ingenuous Brooklynese. He looks exactly like his Revolution-days nickname: Papasha-Little Papa...
...boss of history's biggest production line finished his first 60 days on the job this week. In his office in the Social Security Building, Donald Marr Nelson, Boss of the War Production Board, lifted his bland face from his desk, glanced at the hordes of advisers, callers, clerks streaming in & out, remarked: "This is a hell of a congregation I'm pastor...
With the uneasy prescience that comes with proximity and imminent danger, mindful of many an instance of bland Jap duplicity, the Dutch, instead of putting faith in the Japanese conferences with Cordell Hull in Washington, had got ready to fight...
...Norway : Sverre Riisnaes, Vidkun Quisling's Minister of Justice, who is known to Free Norwegians as "Quisling's Donald Duck," informed an un-Nazified Oslo attorney that his license to practice law had been "revoked for life." The answer was a fish-eyed stare, the bland query: "Whose life...
...Nazis, and in all their conflicting camps. At length, of course, he is framed, robbed, imprisoned. He and other Jews are stuffed with strong purgatives, stripped, and forced to flog each other's buttocks. Johannes Robin is a symbol of that international class myopia which bankrolled Naziism-a bland, would-be-guileful sower of "dragon's teeth...