Word: drabs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...like old times last week in Chicago's drab, drafty South Side: the number of beef cattle arriving at the slaughter houses was the highest for any week in February in 26 years. Busy drovers and commission men tallied a total of 57,565 head...
Neither Manila nor her liberators were garbed for a gala. The city was drab and dirty after the Jap occupation. The incoming soldiers were dust-caked and sweat-streaked. But next morning, as the sun mounted, the miracle of freedom restored called forth a rush of popular emotion that was louder than the music of bands, gayer than whipping banners...
...some instances, olive drab...
...Zhukov apparently had no thought of stopping one moment before the inexorable laws of military supply compelled him. This great human mass of soldiers on the move, as drab and endless as the Russian steppes, had been welded into an enormous, brutal force. Zhukov's bedraggled, unshaven, grimy army, marching beside an incredible number of giant tanks, self-propelled guns, katusha mortars, and almost overburdened with submachine guns, rifles and grenades, had only one cry: Dayosh Berlin! (Give us Berlin!). With the quarry in sight, the cry took on new meaning...
...transport circled Yenan's airport, the hinterland city of 40,000 went into a dither. First to greet the visitor was U.S. Army Observer Colonel David Dean Barrett, an old China hand, who was dressed in a faded, padded blue-cotton greatcoat over his woolen olive drab. General Hurley wore correct two-star uniform, complete with three rows of campaign ribbons, Mexican Aztec Eagle, White Eagle of Yugoslavia, D.S.C. (for gallantry in World War I) and U.S. Distinguished Service Medal with oakleaf cluster. Cracked the Colonel: "General, you have got a ribbon there for everything but Shays...