Word: drabs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Things have presumably become easier since the C-Span cable network began televising the proceedings of the two houses. Now reporters watch them on big television sets in the third-floor rabbit warren called the Senate Press Gallery, with its incongruously ornate ceiling and floor, joined by drab partitions of a later date. Where they once had to sit in the gallery, now correspondents can watch the action or lack thereof as they tap away at their modem word processors, sip coffee and turn down the volume on Senators D'Amato and Helms...
...days, the Union was the epitome of opulence. Today it is drab and dreary....She is a once proud lady that has definitely lost her lustre...
Hand-painted tiles, stained-glass windows and brass samovars have transformed a drab warehouse in Valencia into a Dublin interior, circa 1904. Actors and actresses in long gowns, high collars and tails move about a realistic drawing room replete with chandelier and an old-fashioned square piano; in another room a dining table is set for 16 people. Outside, plastic snow falls steadily. In failing health, near the end of his career, John Huston is filming James Joyce's great short story The Dead...
Saturday's mass abduction began to unfold when three men wearing olive- drab uniforms and the trademark red berets of the Lebanese special police entered the college campus at about 7 p.m. in what appeared to be a police patrol jeep. They had campus security guards round up a dozen of the school's teaching staff, saying they wanted to discuss new security arrangements. When the group had assembled, police said later, the terrorists picked out the four professors, "drew their guns and took them all away...
That's funny. You never noticed the weird geometric paintings hanging on the walls the last time you purchased computer discs there. Earl W. Matthews, proprietor of the Science Center stockroom, says few shoppers notice that it's his artwork on the drab, cinderblock walls...