Word: colorlessness
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...nomination. They foresee that the convention may well be faced with choosing between Humphrey and McGovern -one too shopworn, one too liberal for the party's mood-and thus may decide on Jackson. Yet Jackson has huge handicaps that make the scenario unlikely: he is a colorless speaker and is still not well known nationally...
...company are really indistinguishable. In an era of colorless hired managers, trim, short-haired Geneen has shaped a corporation that everyone in business identifies with him. When he became its president in 1959, ITT already was large, with sales of $765 million, but it mostly produced and ran telecommunications systems abroad. Under Geneen, ITT through a dizzying series of acquisitions has become a hotel operator (Sheraton), insurance seller (Hartford Fire), car renter (Avis), baker (Continental Baking), homebuilder (Levitt), as well as a maker of pulp and cellulose and a major shareholder in Comsat. Overseas it has been rolling like Patton...
...risk is obvious: smoke-filled air contains visible smoke particles and invisible gases that may irritate the eyes and nasal passages. These same substances may also trigger allergic reactions. The least obvious and most insidious danger is that a colorless gas, carbon monoxide, may get into the nonsmoker's bloodstream in sufficient quantity to damage his heart and lungs or exacerbate heart-lung disease that he already...
...energetic labor leader who earned the enmity of Russia by organizing the U.N. defense of South Korea. When he left office, the Soviets objected to more than a dozen prominent candidates and finally agreed to the obscure Dag Hammarskjold only because they mistakenly thought he was a colorless bureaucrat. When Hammarskjold proved to be a vigorous leader who heavily committed U.N. troops and funds in the Congolese civil war, the Soviets began insisting that he be replaced by a three-man "troika." They dropped that demand only when they got the kind of neutral they wanted: U Thant...
Maurice Hall is an uncommonly ordinary human being who manages to pass without distinction through public school and on to Cambridge. He is one of the faceless, colorless many, bred in England's pockets of middle-class provincialism...