Word: colorless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Quiet, colorless Party Leader Bracken has avoided taking a seat in Parliament, let Graydon carry the legislative buiden. His strategy turns on the hope that the country is sick & tired of Mackenzie King. Mr. Bracken offers himself as a safe-&-sound administrator, backed by his record of 20 years as Premier of Manitoba...
...ever, made no play for the greatest gallery of his life. In his own way, cautious but sure, steady and tenacious, he hammered away again at the cardinal tenets of his diplomatic philosophy. Thus he made no stirring show, and not much news except in the yard-long, colorless "color" stories in the press. But he did say that...
...whole trend: it demonstrated that Negroes are deserting the New Deal in droves, that public resentment against the "ins" is stronger in the privacy of the voting booth than in polls, editorials or street-corner talk. In New York, no one in his right mind had conceded colorless Joe Hanley more than a 100,000 majority for Lieutenant Governor; Republican Joe Hanley trotted home with a 350,000 margin...
Nicolai Lenin, his good friend, described Molotov as "Russia's best filing clerk." The epithet was unfair. True, Molotov is colorless, pedantic, phenomenally hardworking. His mind likes order, method, efficiency, and all that passes through it is filed neatly in mental pigeonholes. But he is no dullard. A clear thinker, he keeps his feet on a solid foundation of history, philosophy and economics. Like most Soviet leaders, he quotes from Hegel, Marx, Lenin, Plekhanov-and Stalin-at the drop of a gavel...
Mosquitoes. A new mosquito repeller, more effective and four to six times as lasting as citronella, was announced by a group of chemists from hard-bitten New Jersey. A military secret known only as "Formula No. 612," it is an inexpensive, colorless liquid without unpleasant odor...