Word: drabber
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...French word cloche, meaning bell. In the United States in the 19th century, as in Europe, people were called to work by a bell in a bell tower. Then a clock was hung in the tower or steeple, and its loud chimes rang out the hours. In other, drabber places, there was the factory whistle. But such devices were not possible in big noisy cities. Thus, the coordination of work could be established only if men and women were ruled directly by time; in effect, modern industrialization became possible only after the mass production of clocks and watches...
...barracks has already begun at Fort Sill, Okla., Fort Hood, Texas, and Fort Carson, Colo. Three other posts will start on new quarters this year, and 15 more are slated for barracks renewal in 1974. Comments Army Chief of Staff General Creighton Abrams, who undoubtedly has known drabber digs: "It is a splendid design. It is admirably suited to both male and female soldiers and will make their lives better, happier and healthier." Which raises the question of whether co-ed dorms are next for The Modern Volunteer Army...
...carnal knowledge of me." Though Burton's performance consists mostly of curtain speeches, he handles his lines with flair, particularly when he drags himself away from Liz's shack into the clean, cool air to intone sonorously: "Oh God, allow me some small remembrance of honor." The drabber phrases fall to Eva Marie Saint as the wife, whose patience and succor are apt to take such forms as "Thinking is almost always a kind of prayer...
...thrill is missing: the will-she-or-won't-she question that so breathlessly sustained the previous assaults on Doris' virginity in the recent sudsy cycle of Day comedies. Now that Doris has given in and traded maidenhood for motherhood, life is going to be drabber for the ladies in the balcony. Ross Hunter, how could...
Baxter kept talking, and in 1947 the peacetime Army began looking drabber. One day Kemper found himself being asked point-blank by Episcopal Bishop Henry W. Hobson, president of the board: "What do you think you could do for Andover if you were headmaster?" Said Kemper: "Isn't the question, Bishop, what I could get others to do with me to help the school?" Team Player Kemper...