Word: drabs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...five consecutive days beginning Dec. 19, up to 30,000 students marched through Shanghai's narrow, bustling streets to People's Square, a plaza surrounded by drab government office buildings. Phalanxes of mostly unarmed police stood by impassively as the angry students surged through the city, handing out leaflets and manifestos that opposed government "bureaucratism and authoritarianism" and shouting "Give us democracy and freedom...
...weakness. Foreign reporters assume, usually correctly, that their walls are bugged and their telephones tapped. Listening or homing devices can be hidden in their cars. Westerners are followed on picnics with their families, on walks with their dogs, on trips to the market. Joggers sometimes notice a drab sedan creeping along the curb; KGB agents do not share the American mania for fitness...
Lake Nios, affectionately dubbed the "good lake" by local residents, no longer shimmered a welcoming blue. Instead, the waters had turned a drab shade of reddish-brown, clay having been churned from the lemon-shaped lake's depths. The village that shares the lake's name showed no signs of life, save the rescue crews. Of the hamlet's almost 1,200 residents, only four, including a woman and her child, are believed to have survived. Five miles away in Su- Bum, army troops found a scrawny chicken dancing a macabre two-step atop a freshly dug family grave...
...were wearing leather motorcycle jackets like Marlon Brando," he recalls. "But at the same time I saw there was a collegiate side of the world. I was inspired by it. I was always very preppie." Klein remembers that Lauren cut a distinctive figure in the neighborhood by mixing olive-drab Army clothes with tweeds. At 15, Ralph got his first fashion commission: to design red satin warm-up jackets for his baseball team...
...aimed at children and their indulgent parents, Labyrinth (written by Monty Python's Terry Jones) means to beguile precocious adolescents of all ages. With nods to L. Frank Baum (The Wizard of Oz) and Children's Author Maurice Sendak, Labyrinth lures a modern Dorothy Gale out of the drab Kansas of real life into a land where the wild things are: deaf-and-dumb doorknobs, feral party animals that toss their heads like volleyballs, a terrier-faced knight and his sheep-dog steed, a silly sage with a talking bird growing out of his head, and an orange-haired hybrid...