Word: drabs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dull couple at a dull dinner. The man had been a civil servant in Asia, and the only memorable thing about him was that he was a onetime drunk, taking a bottle to bed with him every night and finishing it before morning. His wife seemed a drab mediocrity, but she had cured her husband of drink. Out of this, Maugham contrived a superb story (Before the Party), which begins in a prim country dwelling, turns into a confession by the fat widow that she had slashed her backsliding husband to death with a parang one hot afternoon in Borneo...
Across the nation, U.S. cities burst into calculated and bravura finery. Bright color blossomed where there was none before, drab public spaces were bathed in light, and people kissed (cheek to social cheek) who had never kissed before. As everyone knows-if reminded-Christmas Day itself marks the birth of Christ. But it is sometimes hard to remember in the weeks before. Instead, the chief big man seems to be that fellow Santa Claus, the patron saint of giving. Pillowed and pastyfaced, he chortles from a myriad of department-store thrones, and pasteboard likenesses beam from drugstore windows. Under...
Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Gogol, Turgenev, Tchaikovsky and Rimsky-Korsakov all gathered there. Today, as Photographer Jones's camera reveals, Leningrad's drab citizens move through Leningrad's loveliness like trespassers...
...school (Ph.D. in American Studies), nor reporting stints in Springfield, Washington, and Latin stints in Springfield, Washington, and Latin America prepared him for New York. "I expected to see Mark Hellinger sauntering down Broadway in a white suit," he said to three different Harvard audiences, "but everybody wore these drab things...
Over the tall green pines of south eastern Alabama, singly and in forma tions of seven, the ungainly olive-drab helicopters swoop and buzz like dragonflies. Night and day they churn above the Army Aviation Center at Fort Rucker. They blast the wire-grass country with rockets, machine-gun slugs and grenades. They execute intricate maneuvers high in the sky and inches off the ground, turning once-tranquil skies into some of the world's most congested airspace...