Word: drabs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...knelt, cried for a minute and left behind his campaign medals: Purple Heart, Bronze Star, Legion of Merit. Another, like many of the veterans in olive drab, added his name to an ad hoc battalion sheet someone had staked in the ground; he stood back, saluted, saw his reflection in the polished black stone, then let out a kind of agonized whimper before two buddies led him away. An Illinois mother ran her fingers once, twice across the name JERRY DANAY, who was killed by a rocket. "It makes me feel closer," Helen Danay said as she remembered...
Weinstein says he went through with his act to inject a little humor into the usually drab graduation ceremony. And he explains. "Stuyvesant, which specializes in the sciences, is usually considered a nerdy school, and so the valedictorian is thought to be the biggest nerd of all I wanted to counter that impression...
...shipyard wanted action: they called a wildcat strike. Before long, Gate No. 2, scene of so much activity two years earlier as Solidarity grew into a force that shook the Communist bloc, was once again covered with red-and-white national banners, papal portraits and flowers. As strikers in drab blue overalls and hard hats chanted slogans, Poles massed outside to cheer them on, tossing bouquets, cigarettes and food through the iron fence. Emboldened by the crowd, workers renamed the shipyard Solidarity, daubing the union's name in a crude graffiti scrawl across the bottom of huge white letters...
...mental and psychological diseases was hit directly on several sides in last Friday's raid, but except for dozens of tiny smashed windows, its main damage shows in a lateral gap high on a wall, the shape of a huge expressionless mouth. When the twelve bombs hit the drab, gray structure, six people were killed and 20 injured. Two female patients sitting in the lounge were sliced to pieces by the shrapnel. It could have been worse. A rocket that hit the children's ward got entangled in a blanket and miraculously never went...
...Arafat, chairman of the P.L.O., gave an exclusive interview to TIME Middle East Bureau Chief William Stewart. The session took place in an underground P.L.O. bunker while armed commandos sat in every doorway. Instead of the usual Arab headdress, Arafat was wearing a stiff fatigue cap and an olive-drab uniform. Excerpts from the interview...