Word: colorlessness
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...prospective Prime Minister, the Labor Party picked amiable, colorless Clement Attlee, since a choice between strong-arm trade unionist Ernest Bevin and smart-policy exponent Herbert Morrison might split the Party. Ernest Bevin was tipped as prospective Foreign Secretary. Promptly he expounded Labor's foreign policy...
...looks to people. The dog's perspective is more foreshortened, so that the walls at the back of the room seem to converge toward the floor. In the same way, the shape of the furniture is changed. As dogs have no sense of color, the room is colorless; even stripes on furniture are indistinguishable...
Careful & Colorless. The gods favor obscurity, and Hirohito's early boyhood was as obscure as a god could wish. He was brought up in imperial privacy, and rarely exposed to the eyes of his future subjects. (A memorable occasion was the day he deigned to visit...
...reported to have been a quiet, rather colorless, careful little boy-the kind of child who in the U.S. always eats his spinach. (Even today, though he is growing a little stout and his uniforms are rather tight in the wrong places, Hirohito is abstemious in his eating and drinking habits and a vigorous respecter of the modern gods of nutrition...
...soldier husband sustained her courage ("We can't lose. He is so strong and clean and brave"). Katharine Forbes, "frightened but calm," kept busy as a doctor's assistant, trying to hold on, but the pressures drained her ("I am just a shell . . . old and colorless . . ."). Blond, hysterical Vinny Whitney's slight strength soon crumbled. She flaunted herself lustfully at the men, finally took up with Lance Diamond, a husky degenerate who had wangled a private room with a cot and kept himself in pocket money by renting it to furtive couples. Mrs. Jenks, once an ordinary...