Word: drabs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...conservative Republican. The son of a Scottish roofer, he quit school after the eighth grade, followed his father's trade and became a Socialist after reading Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward. He ran for mayor nine times before he finally made the grade in 1933. Bridgeport, a drab industrial city on Long Island Sound, was then nearly bankrupt. McLevy fought school expansion, kept city salaries low (his own never topped $9,300), held down taxes as long as he could. Much of the city's business was outlined only in his own scribbled notes, but under...
Realizing that he must see Anna, Dimitri travels to Saratov and meets her at the opera furtively between the acts. She promises to come to Moscow to see him. Their encounters thereafter, in her drab hotel room, are filled with the sadness of the fate that brought them together too late. "We are like two migrating birds," says Anna, "caught and put into separate cages...
...fanfare this week, Moscow celebrates the 45th anniversary of the Communist revolution. It is not a happy anniversary. In nearly half a century the country has made tremendous strides, to become one of the world's great industrial powers, but the life of the ordinary Russian is still drab and cramped. He dreams of material progress that is an everyday fact in the West, and it sometimes seems to him that it is easier for his country to orbit a cosmonaut than to turn out a decent pair of shoes. Despite killing, coaxing and collectivization, Russia has been unable...
...area than all of New York or Pennsylvania. It has good-sized towns, small towns and well-populated farm areas. Last week its emerald green milo was near harvest; a more delicate green was presented by wheat shoots breaking through the rich soil's surface; still in olive drab was the stubble of the past wheat crop left in a third of the acreage to gather moisture and lie fallow for a year. All this bespoke prosperity, and Kansas' First District is certainly prosperous...
...with a record in eight World Series of nine wins and four losses, Whitey could be counted on not to get flustered no matter whom he faced-the Dodgers and Maury Wills or the Giants and Willie Mays. But the Yanks hardly rated as long-odds favorites. In a drab pennant race that saw a perennial loser (the Washington Senators, now Minnesota Twins) come in second, and a baby in the league (the Los Angeles Angels) take third, they could not even win 100 ball games, while both the Giants and the Dodgers reached the century mark against tougher competition...