Word: drabs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Continue your study and critical analysis of the great international questions of our day . . . detect and pursue the ways [to] stability and solidarity," the President told the students. "Lift the eyes of men and women above the drab and desolate horizon of hate and fear and hopelessness . . . You believe in the brotherhood of man ... So believing and so united, you constitute the mightiest temporal force for good on this globe of ours...
...play their full part in parish life because they are prone to "creeping caution," wives of fledgling ministers were warned by the Rev. Theodore A. Gill, managing editor of the Christian Century. "You don't have to be ghostly to be godly . . . Beware lest your piety get too drab and narrow...
Shield came in with a hatful of ideas, soon turned them into cash-register receipts. He systematically pruned away drab and inefficient old stores, studied population trends and home-building statistics to spot his new supermarkets. As the U.S. family moved to suburbia, Shield also packed up, moved his staff and executive offices out of downtown Manhattan to the heart of a shopping center in mushrooming East Paterson, N.J., where he built a glass-and-cut-stone emporium that chain-store experts refer to as "a mecca for supermarket operators." It is not only a thumping success in dollar sales...
...second novel (her first: the widely praised Under the Net), Author Murdoch plays ducks and drakes with a madding crowd of English characters who have not fared well in the welfare state, members of that middling class of drab London sparrows who were brought up to think of themselves as hummingbirds and now lack the sugar for their special diet...
...late as the 1920s, the ballad's bitter plaint was a real-life refrain to millions of U.S. workers from Georgia's green-roofed cotton villages to Oregon's bleak lumber settlements. Those workers had lived, like Composer Merle Travis' coalminer father, in company towns-drab, depressed communities where the worker traded at a company store,* rented a company house, was watched by company cops. Today company towns are still flourishing in the U.S. But the towns, and the tune, have changed...