Word: colorlessly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...years just past. Remember that the 80th Congress passed a number of measures over the President's veto by virtue of alliance between all groups in Congress--there were a lot of Democrats in those two-thirds majorities. Mr. Truman's record up to last summer was so colorless that Republican leaders deemed a campaign unnecessary, thought they would lose less votes by avoiding commitments than they would attract by lavish promises. The President's margin of victory largely represents stay-at-home Republicans, who, confronted with a choice between no program and the Truman deal, avoided the dilemma...
When Jackie Cain, the girl singer, had released her last colorless bubble, and Charlie Ventura's band had slid over its last glissando and flattened its last fifth, the audience applauded politely. No one screamed; no one bounced; no one fell in a fit; no one left. The carefully disorganized music began again, the performers staring blankly at the audience, the audience staring blankly back. Bop was a very serious business-just as serious as swing used...
Stuffiness Is Out. They threw out the stuffy editorials, the colorless layouts, the long "short" stories, and crusaded for public health, clean politics and flogging for child-beaters. They began campaigning against venereal disease, wrote a widely reprinted ad headlined OF COURSE I'LL TAKE A WASSERMANN. Circulation sat up, got up, and climbed...
...play tells of three glaringly dissimilar couples who decide to share a Manhattan mansion. One couple is incredibly frivolous and snobbish; another is grubby, worthy and naive; both are caricatures, while the third is merely colorless. Never deviating from formula, Town House first shows the couples squabbling with one another, then shows them squabbling among themselves, introduces a snooty mother, a sassy child, and a big shot neighbor who first wishes them all in hell and finally carries them all to heaven...
Last week, hardworking, colorless John Studebaker, 61, quit his $10,000 job. "Along with too many other men," he wrote President Truman, "the time has now come when I can no longer afford to remain in the Federal Government." As vice president of Scholastic Magazines and editorial chairman of their five classroom publications, he would make considerably more...