Word: colorlessness
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Dempsey never contested either loss to Tunney, a wonderful boxer but a colorless fighter whose unforgivable sins were that he read books and beat Dempsey. "Honey, I forgot to duck," Dempsey told his wife after the first fight, a line President Reagan found use for 55 years later. When Tunney died in 1978 at the age of 80, Dempsey said, "Now I feel alone...
...said, determined not to "warm my bum on a back bench." Hawke's subsequent lackluster performance has cast some doubts on his ability to govern. But after Labor suffered a demoralizing defeat in a by-election last December, the party decided to jettison Bill Hayden, 50, its colorless longtime leader, and gamble on Hawke's double-edged magnetism...
...INDEED SAD to see the transformation of the Square Anyone who has visited other college campuses has most likely seen what this are could very well turn into a colorless strip of Golden Arches, blue Jean shops and pizza parlors. But it is uncertain whether a few licensing squabbles won will serve as anything more than pebbles ever so slightly altering the course of the tide pouring through the area. Within the past two months, it was announced that two of the oldest establishments in Cambridge--Schoenhol's and pangloss Bookstores--will soon close down to make room...
...arrived in Sacramento. After an aborted Presidential bid, he has settled for a more modest aspiration: the U.S. Senate seat vacated by sleeping Sam Hayakawa. His opponent, Republican Pete Wilson, has spent the last few years as Mayor of San Diego and is as well known there for his colorless personality as Brown is everywhere for his eccentric flamboyance...
...feisty mayor of New York City, colorful and combative, immensely popular in the city he seemed to symbolize, and endorsed by the retiring Governor and most of the state's political leaders. His challenger was the man he had beaten in a mayoralty race, the principled but somewhat colorless Lieutenant Governor, who had never won an election in his own right and was being outspent 2 to 1 in the current contest. But confounding both the polls and the pols, Mario Cuomo last week convincingly beat Edward Koch in New York's Democratic gubernatorial primary...