Word: colorlessness
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...years that have passed, he has worked at one endless job: to make himself a better professional soldier. By comparison with a MacArthur or a Patton, he is colorless. To reporters he has snapped: "I don't want any legends built up around me. I'm just doing what they're paying me for." The record of his tours of duty is as unglamorous as it is long; in World War I, though he got to France, he saw no action. In one thing he takes pride: he has commanded, in relentless progression, a squad, a platoon...
...demonstration (two years before the Wright brothers).*The memorial, in Rio de Janeiro's Aeronautic Museum, was a 10-inch, gold-plated sphere, supported by a winged, kneeling figure in wood. Suspended within the sphere was a crystal ball containing preserving fluid in which floated the cold, now colorless heart of Santos-Dumont...
...York, ailing Robert F. Wagner, the most solid of all New Dealers, surprised all experts by running ahead of F.D.R. to swamp colorless Tom Curran, Tom Dewey's personal choice...
...Piper to Mattoon to get the pink cloth from Mrs. Cordes' porch. The laboratory could find no indications of gas or other chemicals upon it. Piper sat up all night reading chemistry books and announced the next day that the anesthetist was probably using chloropicrin, a heavy, colorless liquid made by chlorinating picric acid...
Thus the U.S., in 1944, had its two most colorless tennis champions in two decades. For the winner of the women's title was California's strawberry blonde, Pauline Betz, whose strokes are less brilliant than those of any first-ten competitor, but who rarely makes a mistake. She is also good-looking...