Word: drabs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...color programs to stimulate quick interest. Most TV critics agree that CBS color is better than movie Technicolor, and CBS hopes that once the public starts seeing video revues in soft, restful colors and starts spotting contrasting jerseys in football games, black-and-white television will become a drab thing...
Jerry Wald and Charles K. Feldman have welded the play's fragments into a literal, realistic continuity, with only a gesture or two in the direction of the original atmosphere. As a result, the story's poignancy and humor are all but swallowed up in a drab, tedious film that even a set of good characterizations cannot redeem...
Later that day, lanky, bespectacled Baudouin (who despite his spindle-thin appearance has a golf handicap of 6) drove to Parliament. Created lieutenant general in the Belgian army by his father, he wore a bright new olive-drab uniform with the wide purple Grand cordon de I'ordre de Léopold across his chest. The thousands of cheering people and his heavy guard of honor plainly embarrassed him. Entering the Chamber of Representatives, he had difficulty managing his sword in its gold scabbard, and fumbled the salutes...
Julius Rosenberg and his wife were listening to the Lone Ranger with their two young sons when a stranger rapped on the door of their battered and drab apartment near the Manhattan end of the Brooklyn Bridge. Twelve men filed in from the small hallway and announced that they were from the FBI. They arrested 32-year-old Julius Rosenberg...
...wheat or rye are harvested. Heart of the South is Seoul, which lies among granite hills overlooking the lordly Han River. The Japanese built wide avenues and modern buildings in Seoul's westernized center, but most of the city's side streets are unpaved alleys bordered by drab wooden shops. Even in the city's center men in western business suits brush elbows with ragged coolies...