Word: colorlessness
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...help the Greeks unless the Turks did and the Turks would not move until the Russians told them to, when they realized how little practical support the British could give, they were grave. They gathered in coffee houses and drank thick Turkish coffee and sipped their ouzo, as colorless and full of kick as corn likker...
William D. (for David) Bayles went to Germany in 1932. He taught English for two years at the University of Munich, then free-lanced. In a little Munich cafe he used to see a "small, nervous, threadbare man with bad teeth, greasy, dandruffy hair, a colorless wisp of a mustache, and pale blue eyes which, like his hands, were never quiet." It was Adolf Hitler...
...afternoon newsmen hustled to the delegations' press conferences, heard reports on the morning's progress. Ignored were the colorless, day-late official handouts prepared by Conference Press Chief Count Nicolas del Rivero, brother of Falangist Strong Man Jose Ignacio Rivero. Behind a desk in his eighth-floor Nacional Hotel office, Secretary Hull received U. S. correspondents, biting the plastic rim of his spectacles, answering questions until his growing hoarseness forced Press Chief Mike McDermott to call...
Anyone who is addicted to this kind of music must find chamber-music very dull, flat, and colorless, indeed. Its comparative quietness, and its total lack of aggressive character, demand much greater concentration on the listener's part. But the reward of this extra concentration is well worth the effort. For in training oneself to appreciate these smaller forms, not an insuperable task by any means, one will become acquainted with the greatest music of Schubert and Haydn, and much of the greatest of Mozart, Brahms, and Beethoven...
Nobody doubted that No. 2 man, Sam Houston Jones, 42, log-cabin-born lawyer from growing Lake Charles (pop. 15,791) in West Louisiana, had a good chance in the run-off next month. A medium-sized, moderately colorless, moderately prosperous small-town ex-assistant prosecutor of unquestioned honesty, Sam Jones's greatest appeal lay in his name. Driving through the Louisiana countryside, motorists reported a warm grass-roots emotion at seeing signs that asserted with quiet dignity: This Is a Sam Jones Town. They felt that a politician named Sam Jones might travel...