Word: drabs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...long in drab Room 830 of New York City's Municipal Building, they gathered last week-the affluent and the needy, the young and the old. They had two things in common: all clutched yellow receipts, and all were frightfully worried that New York would not have the money to redeem the maturing city securities that they held. A Long Island couple needed their $5,000 to pay for a child's education. A messenger waited patiently to cash in $15 million in notes held by the Chemical Bank. An elderly married pair anxiously awaited payment...
Patty had little else to report as the days dragged on. Like the other inmates, she was awakened at 6 a.m., dressed in drab prison garb and then had breakfast, which usually consisted of juice, eggs, sausage and coffee. Patty's 9-ft. by 7-ft. cell adjoined a similar one occupied by Emily Harris; the two women talked and watched a black-and-white TV set in the hallway. They traded reading material, including The Golden Notebook, a complex novel by Doris Lessing about self-definition. Sheriff John D. McDonald Jr. said that the two were model prisoners...
...back gate of the plant. He enters his ground-floor office, a drab room whose walls are bare except for a few scattered snapshots of former Rubery Owen union officials. Spoiling for the day to begin, he makes his first phone call to a works manager. When it goes unanswered, Peach thunders: "Management is just getting out of bloody...
...Nowadays, wrote Karl Maves, two strangers in a bar may spend more than 20 minutes staring at each other just "to figure out what the hell the other one is supposed to mean." The fellow in cowboy boots and beads, with the blue sequins spelling LOVE on his olive-drab army pants, "must be a sort of butch hippie," a cruiser might speculate. "Or at least non-nellie. Without being anti-nellie of course...
...were reopened. There were also signs that "liberation" of the South might have some impact on the North, especially if residents of one region were allowed to travel freely in the other. Bureaucrats in Hanoi have been studying sketches of different clothing and hair styles, apparently to enliven the drab appearance of the North...