Word: drabs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most important issue for Poles today is the country's desperate economic situation. I found drab stores stocked but lacking variety. Citrus fruits and juices were unavailable. Sugar, butter, and meat are rationed; a cup of coffee cost as much as a medium-priced meal. Lines at meat stores often stretched through the door. I routinely noticed 10 or 15 people lingering outside two hours before a meat store opened...
Walter Mondale came to Dallas for that most prosaic of political events, a campaign fund-raising dinner, and he had intended to talk about a drab, unemotional subject-the problems facing small businesses. But he tossed away his prepared speech. As he rambled on last Monday night, he found himself turning his campaign talk into a rather passionate tutorial on religion and liberty. "The founding fathers spelled it out in great detail," he said, when it came to writing the First Amendment. "What they spelled out is the separation of church and state." Suddenly the 800 well-to-do Texans...
Huddled behind closed doors in Washington for the past two months, federal officials and bankers feverishly drafted a plan for the biggest bailout of a private company in U.S. history. The group of three dozen rescuers shuttled from one drab Government conference room to another, working 120-hr, weeks and pausing only occasionally to munch on fried chicken or hamburgers. Until the last minute, dozens of details were still undecided. But finally, William Isaac, chairman of the Federal Deposit In surance Corp., announced at a Washington press conference that the FDIC would put up $4.5 billion to rescue Chicago...
...this Boyd does not invariably succeed. In the title story, for example, a G.I. in Saigon undresses a shy local whore only to find that her back has been grotesquely scarred by napalm; in another, a sexual innocent is initiated by a beefy drab with blue-veined thighs and blood on her fingers from the abattoir, where she sorts out tubs of "shivering, gelid, brown and purple guts...
Castro, in olive-drab fatigues and puffing on a cigar, greeted Jackson with a warm handshake, but not the traditional abrazo, at Havana's Jose Marti Airport. "He said he wanted to embrace me," Jackson explained later. "But it was a kind of historic moment, and both of us wanted to deal with substance and not get sidetracked by symbolism...