Word: colorlessness
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...Connecticut Valley Educators have attacked the Washington decisions as "establishing the principle that an instructor may be dismissed solely upon the basis of his political beliefs without regard to academic performance or qualifications . . . the continuation of this policy will lead inevitably to a colorless orthodoxy of 'safe 'ideas." Other educator groups are also protesting...
Axtell soaked the urn in water and alcohol for three weeks, until the old glue yielded. Then he put it together again, working in about a dozen of the 30 chips that the first man had left out. The added bits did not help much, but Axtell's colorless glue was a great improvement. Before, the breaks in the glass had been apparent several feet away; last week, with the urn again on exhibition in the British Museum, it took a sharp eye to detect the breaks...
While teaching English to Leon Trotsky, she fell madly in love with him. He was bored. Later, at 46, she married a colorless Soviet official. In 1930 she founded the first English-language newspaper in the Soviet Union, the Moscow News. But she could not get along with her Russian associates. One of the squabbles she got into was taken to Stalin himself for judgment. Said she: "His eyes were kind yet grave, giving rest and assurance...
...years just past. Remember that the 80th Congress passed a number of measures over the President's veto by virtue of alliance between all groups in Congress--there were a lot of Democrats in those two-thirds majorities. Mr. Truman's record up to last summer was so colorless that Republican leaders deemed a campaign unnecessary, thought they would lose less votes by avoiding commitments than they would attract by lavish promises. The President's margin of victory largely represents stay-at-home Republicans, who, confronted with a choice between no program and the Truman deal, avoided the dilemma...
When Jackie Cain, the girl singer, had released her last colorless bubble, and Charlie Ventura's band had slid over its last glissando and flattened its last fifth, the audience applauded politely. No one screamed; no one bounced; no one fell in a fit; no one left. The carefully disorganized music began again, the performers staring blankly at the audience, the audience staring blankly back. Bop was a very serious business-just as serious as swing used...