Word: drabs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Time to Go Home. Shortly after 6 p.m., three olive-drab Army trucks rolled up to Montgomery Ward's main entrance. Out jumped a 44-man unit of battle-helmeted Military Police under command of Lieut. Ludwig Pincura. Bayonets glinted in the afternoon sun. Followed by four enlisted men, Lieut. Pincura began his bloodless invasion. On the eighth floor the five pairs of Army brogans clattered across the green-and-white-squared linoleum, then moved noiselessly through the deep-carpeted executive offices...
...Senate's best exponent of lush oratory, combined with a delicate irony that was so unanswerably pat that it choked his opposition into helpless gurgles of rage. Fortnight ago, in bitter argument with Missouri's Bennett Clark, he cooed: "My remarks probably creep into his drab life like a gleam of supernal sunshine. I merely want to elevate him to higher planes of thought." When Clark battled it out with Kentucky's "Happy" Chandler, Homer Bone interrupted: "I have always found them bearing themselves in the brunt of battle with the true courtesy of Arthurian knights...
...Washington's most successful criminal lawyers, she yearned for a suburban home in fashionable Chevy Chase, Md. But Robert Ingersoll Miller, 67, onetime law partner of the late Vice President Charles Curtis, good friend of Herbert Hoover and Franklin Roosevelt, preferred to stay in the drab Victorian brown-brick house on shabby 8th Street. Friends advised Mrs. Miller to take her emotional problems to a good psychiatrist...
They gathered in London weeks ago, there attended lectures which deglamorized life in Canada. They learned, for example, that ranch life can be and often is woefully drab. They had a rough voyage -some of them in ships that brought German survivors of the Scharnhorst sinking. The Dominion Government paid the fares. At East Coast ports the Red Cross gave advice, emergency money, layettes for newborn babies. Now the 200 English, Scottish and Irish brides and fiancées of Canadian soldiers have scattered across the Dominion to new homes...
Their quarters were purposely kept dank and moist. They ate miserable special diets of concentrated food. For weeks on end they disciplined themselves to work and live and spend drab hours in closetlike confinement...