Word: colorlessness
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This trio would probably succeed Tito in a joint capacity if the marshal were to die or be assassinated. Probably no one of them has the personality to succeed Tito alone-Kardelj is too colorless, Djilas too impetuous, and Rankovic too well hated...
There were other habits that were harder to break: the Sun annually reprinted the "Yes, Virginia" editorial, ran such departments as Dogs, Cats, and Tropical Fish, never deviated from its dignified, colorless makeup. The Republican Sun's editorial page seemed to some to be against almost every social welfare plan since Virginia's Santa Claus. To its credit, the Sun printed plenty of A.P. news and prided itself on its financial, art and education pages, but it pinched pennies covering local news and often did not move as fast as it should. Once, when a World-Telegram reporter...
Taciturn and colorless, he won his private prestige among the President's private men by the sheer orderliness of his legalistic mind...
...court hastily adjourned for 20 minutes to give Kostov a chance to read his confession over. When the court reconvened, Traicho Rostov, a colorless little man who looked like a small-town schoolmaster, still firmly stood his ground. For the first time in the weird history of Communist show trials, a major defendant had stepped out of the part assigned him and had yelled defiance till the end at the hidden author of the script.*Defendant Kostov provided some biting lines of his own. Questioned about Tito's police chief, Alexander Rankovic, he said: "I went to a banquet...
Scripter-Director-Producer Robert Rossen's efforts to keep Stark from being a facsimile of the late Huey Long often turn the character into a colorless man who lacks the political charm of a people's favorite and looks like a cross between a schoolteacher and a gangster. But when Actor Crawford is allowed to swing around in the role, he has some fine scenes-notably, the seedy politico resting off a nightlong drunk in a playground swing, gesturing the children to go off and leave him alone...