Word: drabs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...headquarters of the old official trade union in the southern city of Rzeszow, a drab concrete building that has been occupied for three weeks by members of Solidarity and Rural Solidarity, a sign says SOLIDARITY IS MORE THAN JUST A NAME. In fact the united front put up by the Rzeszow chapter of Solidarity appears to have the authorities there stymied. On the one hand, they have been unable to coax the occupiers out. On the other, they are equally unwilling to grant their main demand: negotiations toward legitimizing the farmers' union. The result is a standoff. Last week...
...wealthy entrepreneur had made a fortune in the electronics businesses of Northern California's "Silicon Valley." In his mid-40s, possessing a proven record of management, he seemed the very model of a Reagan top appointee. As he sat in the drab Washington office of E. Pendleton James, the President-elect's personnel director, visions of the sub-Cabinet danced in his head...
...making, as the Soviet shadow grew longer over Poland and the U.S. economy once again lurched out of control. But Washington can be a parochial town where people and power are concerned, and week after week the anticipation had been building. Résumés flowed into the drab transition headquarters. FBI agents conducted background checks. There was feverish speculation in the corridors of the bureaucracy, as well as in the daily accounts of newspapers and TV news broadcasts. But when the moment came for Ronald Reagan to announce his first eight selections for Cabinet-level jobs...
...mood could not have been more businesslike. The advance guard of as many as 500 Reaganites who were soon to be working on the transition checked into nine floors of a drab eleven-story M Street office building, where it found rooms sparsely furnished with gray metal desks. Doors bore hand-lettered signs identifying the functions of the people who would be occupying the offices (congressional liaison, agricultural task force) but not yet their names. In the seventh-floor mail room, nine volunteers sorted sacks of letters addressed to Reagan into 100-odd cubbyholes. The largest...
...short, unshaven young men in blue jeans and olive-drab flak jackets walked up to the door of Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini's modest house in the Tehran suburb of Jamaran. They were immediately ushered inside. The two visitors had been mere university freshmen until a year ago. On Nov. 4, 1979, they joined an estimated 500 other militants in seizing and occupying the U.S. embassy. Now, while their comrades downtown were preparing to celebrate the first anniversary of the siege, the two young men were reporting to Khomeini to elicit his "guidance" about the vote by the Majlis...