Word: drabs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Chinese Liaison Office is located in the old Windsor Hotel, a drab yellow, undistinguished-looking building on Washington's Connecticut Avenue. We arrived late. A few policemen stood outside, unoccupied. Inside people were standing attentively, listening to Liaison Chief Chai Tse-min and his interpreter...
Frederick the Great said that an army marches on its belly, and for 40 years the American Army has filled its stomach with C (for combat) rations. The food came in olive-drab cans that seemed to match the flavors sealed inside...
...years and one war. When she died last week at the age of 80, from the complications of lymphoma, an illness she had kept secret for twelve years, she still ranked high on any list of the world's most admired women. The dumpy, doughty lady with her drab dresses, hair strewn with gray, and ever present cigarette was a figure of legend, and yet historians were divided on whether a cold-eyed examination of her record would ultimately justify the adulation she sought and gained...
...fact, that sensibility is frequently in distinguishable from Updike's gilded-gesso prose, a doge's palace of words that are as unexpectedly suited to fill the dreaded emptiness of Kush as they did the drab streets of Olinger, the fictional setting of some of the author's earlier stories...
...Ford, the last eight years as president. The precise reasons for Iacocca's downfall are still unclear, but at least one of the causes was a clash of wills with Chairman Henry Ford II. After his firing formally took effect in mid-October, Iacocca was relegated to a drab, linoleum-floored office in a spare-parts warehouse near Ford's headquarters in Dearborn, Mich...