Word: drabs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pilot pointed toward four olive drab Chinese air force transports across the field. "Looks as if the Chinese air force has just about pulled out," he said. "What are we doing here?" "What are we usually doing?" snorted another pilot. A short, young Chinese chief mechanic broke in: "You take me back to Nanking tonight, huh? I don't want to make no hero...
...golf course and famed Cocoanut Grove cabaret, completely lacking in "coherence and good taste." The hotel's circular marquee looked to him like one of the "30 or 40 hot-dog stands in the immediate area." As for the Cocoanut Grove, "you don't have to have drab palm trees . . . Does the Pump Room have a pump...
...sometimes lets it go too far. What tremendously braces The Silver Whistle's very shaky charm is José Ferrer's very assured performance. A master of florid roles, a born Cyrano de Bergeractor, Ferrer spouts and yarnspins with an air, never trades tinseled make-believe for drab reality...
Suchow, junction point of the south-north rail line from Nanking and the east-west Lunghai line to the coast, is a drab, unlovely city, protected by a rim of well-fortified, rocky hills. By week's end Communist General Chen Yi's mobile columns had swung around Suchow, cut all rail lines and brought the main airfield under artillery bombardment. Officers of Nationalist "Bandit Suppression Headquarters" hastily flew south to set up quarters nearer Nanking...
...Open the Gates." In victory, Harry Truman was happy and humble. He visited reporters in the press car, laughingly chided them for their bum guesses. At Missouri's drab state capital, Jefferson City, he quieted the cheers of several thousand well-wishers. "After the election's over," he said, "I bear no malice or feel badly toward anyone, because the fellow who lost feels badly enough without being crowed over . . . This is the most wonderful thing that ever happened to a man. But this is a terrible responsibility and you must stand behind...