Word: colorlessness
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...time is during some future European war. Scientific murder is perfected now. Over the battlefront hangs, pall-like, a colorless deadly plaid woven of beamless rays that no airplane can pierce. Beneath this pall the long entrenched lines, locked together, writhe and push. Should the westerly line crack, the alien hordes will roar through, flood the lands beyond with death or with their super-mechanized civilization worse than death...
Reputation for omniscience among 40,000 subscribers has proved costly to United States Daily, the careful, colorless chronicle of official news of the Federal and 48 State Governments printed daily in Washington by David Lawrence. Subscribers have made a practice of requesting special, thoroughgoing reports of conditions affecting their private interests-transportation, marketing, taxation, insurance, oil production et al. To the extent of the paper's facilities Publisher Lawrence has tried to meet, such requests, either by printing the reports when space permitted or sending individual replies. The problem of keeping production costs in line with income...
...disposition to gloss over con troversial questions will bring forth a meaningless [platform] document, a colorless candidate and a weakened party. Expediency will do nothing for democracy. ... It would be better that the convention remain in session all summer and give to the people a vigorous, strong platform and candidates capable of fighting for it than to hurry away from Chicago with a half-baked proposal...
Should Be Colorless...
...successful dark horse on the other hand is usually colorless. He is the man without active enemies, without a striking record in national politics. He is essentially a compromise candidate brought forward when a deadlock has been reached between more outstanding aspirants. Consider James K. Polk in 1844, Horation Seymour, Democratic nominee in 1868, James A. Garfield in 1880, and Warren G. Harding...