Word: drabs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mark its 125th birthday this year, the Long Island Rail Road, busiest U.S. commuter line, decided to spruce up its grimy face and its public image. Last week the railroad's coaches sported the latest evidence of its campaign: a gay new insignia to replace the drab, 100-year-old L.I. in a circle. The insignia: a red, yellow and blue emblem showing a harried commuter rushing to catch a train, eyes glued to his watch and hand gripping a briefcase and umbrella. The new insignia for "The Route of the Dashing Commuter," is designed to humanize the Long...
...months ago Khrushchev himself told the Soviet people to shape up-discard their familiar padded jackets and baggy pants. Result: on Moscow streets, vivid hats are replacing drab shawls, and more men are wearing fedoras instead of cloth hats. But following fashion is not always easy, complained Izvestia. Only one man in 30 can find a ready-made suit that will fit him. In a ladies' clothing store on Gorky Street an Izvestia reporter overheard a salesgirl telling a customer: "Your figure is nonstandard, and you won't find anything for yourself." The next 20 customers were likewise...
Response to the article (the quotation about "abolishing Bolivia" appeared only in the local Latin American edition) was swift and violent: La Paz got annoyed, students got riled up, President Hernan Siles Zuazo (in the drab, grey palace where he is guarded constantly by an unmanned machine gun) got worried, 10,000 copies of Time got burned, the American embassy got attacked. Summoned from Secretary Dulles' cloud chamber at Walter Reed Army Hospital, temporarisecretary Chris Herter, a genially proper Bostonian, expressed hope that "a magazine would not be permitted to disturb the traditionally good relations that have existed between...
Last week a U.S. embassy official added up the results and made a wry face. "We don't have a damn thing to show for it," he said. "We're wasting money." Up in the clouds of La Paz (alt. 11,900 ft.), inside the drab, grey palace where he is guarded constantly by a manned machine gun, Hernan Siles Zuazo. 44, Bolivia's President, admitted: "The situation is critical and explosive...
...small room deep in the stacks, the books from Longfellow's personal library line the shelves. The Longfellow papers have already been catalogued, and the letters written to him are now being arranged. The books on the walls are drab and faded; on the fly-leaf of a copy of one of Emerson's works, in splotched purple ink is the inscription "To H.W. Longfellow from the old granddaddy himself, R.W.E...