Word: drabs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...could view such a task with equanimity. For as Michael Korda sagely observed in one of his treatises on modern success, "Desks can tell us a great deal about people's power quotient." Another year shackled to a black vinyl Daily Planner would be the final indictment of the drab ordinariness of my workaday life. As my power quotient tumbled beneath even that of Michael Dukakis, gone would be those wistful dreams of a corner office and secretaries heralding my daily arrival with eager chirps of "Good morning, Mr. Shapiro...
...Greek heroes, the Browns are a bunch of Willy Lomans, riding on a smile and a shoeshine. Nothing would be more uplifting to the city of Cleveland, a lunch-pail town with a drab reputation, than a Browns championship. But the Browns' work-a-day efforts have been thwarted the last two years. And now, after Sunday's loss, they seem destined to fall from the heights of disappointment into the morass of mediocrity...
...least exciting of colors is the least exciting of Ivy League football teams. The 1988 Brown football team has played like the color it represents--drab and uninspiring...
...EPISO's headquarters in a drab storefront, she conveys her excitement to a covey of volunteers planning a mass sign-up drive. At one parish, churchgoers will be buttonholed after Sunday Mass. "Can we get the ushers to help us?" she wonders. "You're the oil that makes everything move," she tells workers. They laugh. "She teaches us power and strength," a housewife confides...
...Today: The Television Show, which began its nightly broadcasts last week, is an unmitigated mess. Unsubtly billed by Gannett as a "new journalism of hope," the show is neither hopeful nor journalistic. Its splashy graphics--borrowed of course from the show's paper parent--obscure a lineup that is drab and uninviting. Consider the Wednesday "spotlight": a snappy 10-second piece on the states with the highest population of pigs...