Word: drabs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sugar Ray came down to his lakeside training camp trailing a drab crew-a couple of beefy sparring partners and a brace of trainers, all solemn and eager to pound the champ into proper shape for next week's bout with Challenger Carmen Basilio. Only the boss himself seemed to be a hangover from the high old times when he traveled with a clowning dwarf, a personal barber, his private golf pro and the one man a boxer needs least of all: a bodyguard...
...intelligence got wind of Abel's activities. By that time, under the name of Emil Goldfus, Colonel Abel, the shy spy with the chameleon gift of protective coloration, had rented as headquarters a tiny, $35-a-month studio in a run-down brick building on Brooklyn's drab Fulton Street, within full view of the U.S. Attorney's office...
...More Geometry." The year was 1910, and cubism was becoming the rage. Delaunay took the drab monochromes, static angularities and enclosed planes of cubism and filled them with light, air and movement. "Light deforms everything, breaks everything-no more geometry," he wrote. Assiduously following his theory, Delaunay painted his famed series of the Eiffel Tower (see color page). The tower exploded under the impact of light, defying the law of gravity, ignoring geometry. A new eye and an original brush had brought both a dynamic and lyrical note to cubism...
Practically every penny of Brunei's newfound riches is going into a huge system of social-and economic welfare enterprises. Schools, hospitals, roads and public works have sprung up everywhere. Rows of spanking new houses in cheerful pink, yellow and chartreuse have arisen to take the place of drab thatched huts. Massive U.S.-built earth movers plow into virgin forest, making way for new highways. A new $2,000,000 mosque, the first in Islam to boast an elevator, stands in the heart of Brunei town, the nation's capital (and only) city...
...week here. I've been criticized by some for not cooperating; ten of my parishioners have spoken to me about it. People are bewitched by the aura of Madison Square Garden, they are lifted by the general upsurge; then they come to the local church and find it drab-it has only the faith, and it's dull stuff after the glamour of their big moment...