Word: drabs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...white on the other. The cheerleaders will signal a number to the men in the stands, who will merely have to look on their cards to see which color is appropriate for their positions. Another signal and the Harvard side of the Stadium will metamorphose from a sea of drab overcoats into waves of color, depicting "the banks of the old Raritan," bears, bulldogs, or what-have...
Bigger & Better. After four drab war seasons, the football weekend was back. The Big Game was again something to anticipate, prepare for, and see-in a slight haze induced by sentimentalism, alcohol, and the sight of thousands of chrysanthemums on fur coats...
...dark, drab Chicago flat where he was born and brought up, there was no money for such luxuries as college. But Bill Pereira was ambitious, so he figured out a scheme with his elder brother Harold. Hal got a job as a draftsman, helped pay Bill's way through architectural school. When Bill finally began to prosper, he paid Hal back by taking him on as a partner...
Reporters on a daily drudge through the Surrogate's Court in Poughkeepsie leaped hungrily last week upon a rare scrap of news. A millionaire's name over a drab set of tax-appraisal figures made their story. The name: Franklin Delano Roosevelt...
...drab years after World War I, automobile tycoons and politicians of the Third Republic elbowed out dukes and princes. Business came before pleasure even at Maxim's. Over Maître d'Hôtel Albert's homard à l'américaine, Cabinet careers were made and broken, and million-franc deals consummated. Maxim's ladies, the poules de luxe, often sat in lonely splendor until at long last a U.S. sugar king or Bolivian tin baron whispered in Gérard...