Word: colorlessness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...blast zone stretching north of the mountain, all appears to be devastated, a sea of gray volcanic ash. Geologists and biologists believe it will be decades before life comes back to the mountain's highest slopes. Yet lower down, in what looks like a totally forbidding, colorless world, life, incredibly, is returning. Deer tracks have been spotted on otherwise barren slopes; new growths of ferns and skunk cabbage are poking through the ash. Tree sprouts are "coming up beautifully," says John Allen, 72, geology professor emeritus at Portland State University...
...suffused with melancholy, the poems were carried into the trenches of World War I by thousands of "lads," few of whom knew anything of the author-just as the poet wished. A Cambridge don who shunned any mention of his verse, Housman hid behind a late-Victorian mask of colorless propriety. The flamboyant London literary scene of the turn of the century left him cold. "He was like an absconding cashier," recalled Max Beerbohm. "We certainly wished he would abscond...
...local government officials, including Governors Dixy Lee Ray of Washington and John Evans of Idaho. From the air Carter could not see the still-smoking peak of Mount St. Helens. It was hidden by rain clouds. But as his chopper flew at treetop level, he was astonished by the colorless landscape...
...phosphorous trichloride, a colorless liquid used in water treatment by the Everett plant of the Monsanto Chemical Corporation, streamed steadily down the side of the ruptured car yesterday morning...
...excruciating tension arises from the knowledge of that truth. While I sometimes wish I could blithely insist that I am before all else a colorless and genderless "person,"--as I did in my lily-white, predominantly-male high school activities: I am ever conscious of the ways racism asserts itself in even the friendliest relations between white and Black people. I therefore find myself caught too often between two sides of a dispute, seeing the logic and the idiocy of both points of view, knowing that in the world of people and ideas, there are no absolutes, no "black...