Word: drabs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bitter glories of the French Resistance had lingered on into the politics of peace. Long after the common enemy was beaten, and the people of the underground had returned to their drab lives, men utterly opposed to Communism hesitated to attack Communists with whom they had shared danger in the struggle against the Germans. Even the Communists had curbed personal attacks on men like Georges Bidault, whose Resistance leadership they had accepted. But it was obvious that sooner or later the Communists would do away with such sentimental nonsense. By last week, the last remnants of France's gallant...
...stopped rolling and the threat of food shortages became very real, the British threw in what Washington has so often in the past considered the final, unanswerable weapon--the troops. The response was immediate, and directly adverse to what Americans, judging from past faith in the efficacy of olive drab uniforms and bayonetted rifles, would consider natural. Instead of calling the men back into the driver's seat, the truckers felt disposed to shout "Blacklegs!" at the Tommies who were learning a new twist to the King's service. Hopping mad, the Union began bellowing for a general strike...
...squatted there since last March. Under Polish law the squatters cannot be evicted until "satisfactory " accommodations have been found for them. So far they have turned down all proffers. Meanwhile Ambassador and Mrs. Lane have been forced to set up diplomatic shop in a two-room suite in the drab Polonia, once a third-rate commercial hotel...
...narrow side street in lower Manhattan is a drab, recessed doorway that bears the legend: "Dr. Peter Schlumbohm. Walk One Flight Up." In a loft upstairs is a bright, orderly array of glass, aluminum, cork, plastics, cartons, and laboratory gimmicks. Off to one side is the rough-lumber worktable at which Dr. Schlumbohm, 50, a large (225 lbs.), hearty man with a bellowing laugh, has worked out 1,000 inventions. Last week he was fondling two newborn brain children: the Tubadipdrip, a combination coffeemaker-teamaker and cocktail mixer, and the Tempot, a combination fireless cooker-ice cream freezer-frozen food...
...them-were going to dress with rare elegance this winter. They were going to bare their shoulders, drape themselves in extravagant yards of rich cloth and go out on the town festooned with about every feminine furbelow short of a bone in the nose. The fabric restrictions, the drab colors and tailored lines of wartime were out. An opulent era of furs, jewels, lame, rustling silk and bouncing bustles, of feathers, tassels, braid and decontrolled nudity was here...