Word: drabs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cavalry charge, it was something of a flop. The objective was a sprawl of scrub-grown hills known as "the Crow's Foot," and the mounts were hulking, olive-drab helicopters. Not a single cavalryman carried a saber; instead they cradled automatic rifles in their arms. No plumed, defiant enemy fell to their swift assault, only 47 scrawny, half-naked guerrillas. Yet in its unromantic rendezvous with the Viet Cong last week, the U.S. 1st Cavalry (Airmobile) was far more effective than anything recorded in the dancing dactyls of Tennyson...
Tiny Telemcmn. Operating in their cheerfully freewheeling fashion from offices in a drab mid-Manhattan brownstone, the two managers have gone from a line-up of eleven events in their first year to 72 in the coming season-among them a "Tiny Telemann Festival," honoring the baroque composer, and four programs of Viennese music, to be played by Viennese pianists. Now their expanding interests are rapidly encompassing the dance, drama, films and children's programs. Whatever it is, Hoffman insists, "if you have a good-quality product, you can find an audience...
...challenge to performers, the Mozart is deceptively simple. The Guarneri Quartet, fortunately, was not deceived. The pitfall with this, as with many other Mozart works, is that the player or players will not make the most of the symmetry of the music, and will turn out aperformance that is drab and uninteresting. While one may argue that the music is overly simple, one must remember that this is a studied simplicity, consciously reduced to the essentials and devoid of pedantry and presumptuousness. Looked at in this light, it becomes clear that the Mozart is fully as great a compositional achievement...
...Bouize, where the good life consists of lolling in the two local bistros and sipping the cool white wines of Sancerre and Pouilly, Farmer Georges Delair's motorbike accident was a particular tragedy. The day an auto knocked him over the handle bars onto his head, life turned drab indeed for the large, affable man. Pains in his head and neck impaired his work. Even worse, the 33-year-old Delair told the court: "Before, white wine made me gay, joyous and optimistic. Now it gives me terrible headaches, and after a few glasses I become sad or vicious...
Outside four olive-drab sheds, which will ultimately house army latrines, 1,100 Vietnamese construction workers at Phan Rang last week excitedly queued up to cast what were, for almost all of them, their first ballots. When the free, secret election was over, they had chosen a ten-person "workers' council" to deal with their employer, the U.S. construction combine, which is led by Morrison-Knudsen of Boise, Idaho, and known as RMK-BRJ.* Far from fighting the unionization, the combine sponsored it as one way to ease around a barrier it had not bargained for: labor unrest...