Word: drabs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...feature film; of cancer; in New York City. She had been married since 1967 to Elia Kazan, who directed her in her Tony Award-winning performance as the Marilyn Monroe figure in Arthur Miller's After the Fall. Her 1970 Wanda, a proto-feminist chronicle about a drab, desperate Appalachian housewife, won the International Critics Prize at that year's Venice Film Festival...
...small bar in Mexico Beach, Fla., Jimmy Carter's eldest son Chip was drinking beer with several other young men on the afternoon of July 20, 1977. His companions included the skipper of the Foxy Lady, a drab work boat that Carter, who was vacationing that month with then Wife Caron and Son James at her family's house near Panama City, had chartered on several occasions. Indeed, Carter was arranging with the owner to use the Foxy Lady for a fishing trip with 20 or so friends...
...attackers, some dressed in the olive drab fatigues of bush-hardened guerrillas, approached in an extended line. Their AK-47 rifles started blazing as they walked toward the dilapidated farmhouse. "They just opened fire on us," said Ralph Chadwick, a farm equipment dealer who was visiting the property with two other whites. "We scrambled for cover and beat a fast retreat to our cars as the firing got hotter." Returning with police 30 minutes later, they found the farm's white manager, Gerald William Adams, 68, dead with a single bullet in his back...
Already a prodigious classics scholar at 18, he spent his days emendating the Latin poet Propertius instead of reading the syllabus. When he failed his final exams, the undergraduate's pride was crushed. At home, his father had run through the modest family fortune, and for a drab and agonizing decade Housman clerked in the London Patent Office...
...spirited parliamentary showdown, in vivid contrast to the drab sessions of the recent past, brought to a swift end the political malaise of el desencanto -the disenchantment-that has gripped Spain in the past year. The Suárez government, after shepherding the country through a euphoric and successful post-Franco transition, has seemed increasingly bogged down by the intractable problems of 16% inflation, 10% unemployment and the stubborn wave of separatist terrorism. The partial autonomy recently granted to the provinces of Catalonia and the Basque country has similarly failed to diminish their regional resentment against Madrid. Stung...