Word: colorlessness
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...seems, as one British observer has remarked, that the members of the House of Representatives "would rather not be right than be ex-Congressmen." It seems that all but two of the faint-hearted men of the lower chamber are infinitely anxious not to oppose the colorless but powerful man who has made himself Poobah of American patriotism...
Tinted Tour. But how good is it? Attracted by the drumbeats for last week's Color Day, thousands of the colorless sought out friends with color sets and had a look for themselves. What they saw gave evidence that color can be very good indeed. It cannot be substituted for a literate script-even the muted, tastefully done sets of From These Roots could not disguise the detergent flavor. But, with its still faintly unrealistic air, color does enliven the pseudo-realism of daytime drama, and did so for the fourth Purex Special for Women, which soap-operatically explored...
...back to the U.S. after being made a cardinal by Pope Pius XII), St. Louisans found Indiana-born Archbishop Ritter a far different kind of man from the warm and outgoing Archbishop Glennon. Slender almost to frailty, with rimless glasses and a gentle voice. Ritter seemed unapproachable and colorless at first, but it was not long before St. Louis' 450,000 Roman Catholics knew how much more he was than an office manager...
...Orleans in 1837. At ten, he began beating the best players in Louisiana, and at 21 he had beaten the best in the world. A year later he abandoned chess, possibly because the girl he hoped to marry scorned the game. Morphy, as Novelist Keyes resurrects him, is a colorless weakling, whose intellect, despite the fact that everyone thinks him brilliant, is an unfavorable blend of compoop and nincompoop...
...Cold and colorless as a block of ice, the Yankee organization for years had not only a way of achieving success but of accepting it as its due. In 1947 Manager Bucky Harris won the American League pennant and the World Series; the next year the Yankees were squeezed out in the season's last week-and Harris was swiftly fired. At that point, to the utter astonishment of all, the Yankees made a move that seemed as though General Motors had been delivered into the hands of a Keystone Cop. As their new manager, the Yankees chose baseball...