Word: drabs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tommies who might find his program drab. Author Priestley offers an unexpected inducement-a jihad against bluenoses: "I should like to see the English, once they had done their share of the community's work, doing what they damned well pleased; and refusing once and for all to be bullied by highly organised little gangs of teetotallers, Sabbatarians, and all the unloved and the life-haters. The chief freedom the English people need now is the freedom to have more fun. without regard to the feelings of sour-faced old women and envious...
Ernie Bevin, who has spent 31 years in politics, is even more cautious than Jimmy Byrnes. With a wary look in his eye, Bevin arrived in Moscow swaddled in a heavy woolen suit, a thick olive-drab sweater, an enormous fur-lined and collared black coat and fleece-lined boots. He had to turn side wise to ease himself out of the plane's door...
...uncovered a growing dissatisfaction with factory and office routine; life in drab, overbuilt cities cost too much-in something more important than pounds & shillings...
...couldn't take the discipline; they didn't like the system. They didn't like to take orders from younger professional officers. . . . They were unhappy that they didn't get a nice, new warship berth, but instead drew the amphibious force, or perhaps even a drab and dangerous LST. But worst of all, none of this group of "experts" was worked hard enough...
Also a Floor Show. Outside the drab Palace of Justice, the citizens of ancient Nürnberg expended little thought or care on their former leaders. Once, in this very town, they had cheered them year after year with apoplectic fervor. Now, one of them said: "The trials? Na ja. Of course criminals should be brought to trial. It isn't the fault of us poor people." Said another: "You accuse them of making war. Are you not preparing new wars...