Word: drabs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bell. With almost melancholy indifference, Chambers began once again to recite the drab facts of his early career. In the closing hours of the trial's fifth day, Cross brought the questioning back to the chief and only really relevant aspect of the case: the old relationship of the two men. How had Chambers returned the documents to Hiss's house, as he stated, sometimes as late as 2 a.m.? How had he gotten in? Said Chambers: "I believe I had a key." He might simply have rung the bell, he was not sure. But Hiss...
...before spring. The shrewdest observers, sure that Attlee and Morrison did not want a fall election, predicted a date around May i. But Nye Bevan was reported to be insisting on a "snap" autumn election. If that was really what he wanted, he might get it, for in the drab ranks of Labor statesmen he was the nearest thing to a popular hero...
...evenings, he met some of the pioneers of modern French painting. Around Paris he caught glimpses of the work of les fauves, the "wild beasts"-Matisse, Rouault, Dufy, Derain -whose daring compositions and brilliant colors were setting French art on its ear. His own academic interiors and portraits looked drab and uninspired by comparison. In 1904, renouncing his old formal ways, he flirted with impressionism and became the first U.S. artist to follow up the experiments of les fauves...
...vision of a whole new city-a second skyscraper, the $10 million, 30-story Alcoa building rising beside a new $4,000,000 green park, other new office buildings rising on the Triangle's point. It was a vision of a city cleared of drab relics of half a century, cured of its traffic congestions, freed of the pollution of its rivers and the poison of its soot-heavy air, a city better housed. The hammering of the pile driver was the nervous pulse of a run-down old Pittsburgh acquiring a new life...
...parish church in the Yorkshire town of Bolton upon Dearne is built on foundations which date back some 900 years. The Rev. Donald Carr Sparks has been vicar there for only ten years. But to Vicar Sparks the church's drab interior and plain, pitch-pine pews seemed "very institutional." Last week, the parishioners of Bolton upon Dearne were doggedly trying out a brave new ecclesiastical color scheme-red (pews), white (walls) and blue (doors). "The whole idea," Vicar Sparks explained, "is to bring color and warmth to the church without making it gaudy...