Word: drabs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...simply furnished, two-room Manhattan office sat a tired-looking, greying man. Leaning back in his chair, he puffed on his pipe, leafed through a magazine, occasionally looked out the window at the drab court below. Earl Browder, onetime boss of U.S. Communists, looked like any little businessman waiting for customers...
There was more of the same from Major General of Police Otto Ohlendorf, a drab little man who matter-of-factly told the court that he had been responsible for killing 90,000 men, women & children in one year (June 1941-June 1942). These were the fruits of his Special Task Force D, one of several assigned to liquidate Communists and Jews. Task forces A, B, and C were said to have killed more people than his own D, reported Ohlendorf, but he suspected that they were just boasting...
...rather a pity that such a pathetic exhibit provides a vehicle for Victor Moore. The drab mediocrity of his role which calls for eternal petulance and peevishness makes even Moore become tiring. In the romantic lead, despite his age and figure, is that gay Casanova, William Gaxton; the obvious farce of love scenes between Gaxton and Marilyn Maxwell is sheer hypocrisy. To complete the scene Miss Maxwell hasn't the voice to sustain her in a long role and although she is one of the loveliest women alive today her costumes and heavy makeup never betray the secret...
...Brunoy's drab Town Hall came the bride, her pregnant body wrapped in a worn rabbit fur coat, and the bridegroom, his shoulders hunched in a ragged overcoat. A disapproving, contemptuous crowd stood in the wedding hall, the long room outside the Mayor's office. Hate was the chief witness...
...Britain getting enough to eat? Yes-according to a scientific definition of "enough." But the common man's stomach rumbles a frequent dissent. The British diet may be adequate, but the drab, monotonous stuff that Britons have been eating for six years leaves half of them (according to a Gallup poll) feeling underfed...