Word: drabs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...during the years of communist rule in Prague, has stripped much of the land of its character. West of Decin, where we had crossed the Elbe, there is a new bridge, but the forest and meadow-the green countryside I remembered-have yielded to smokestack and factory, pipeline and drab worker housing. Lignite mining has left massive scars and transformed vast stretches of land into a moonscape. "This looks like the end of the war," Lubos said, pointing to one jagged excavation. Pollution haze darkened the clouds, and the smell of chemicals was in the air-a far cry from...
...permission to enter the U.S. on humanitarian grounds. The remaining 15,000, mostly young men, were facing indefinite detention-a good recipe for riots. welcome to hell, said a sign scrawled on a tent at Guantanamo last week, while inside six sweaty and bored young men lolled on olive-drab cots. Only days after the announcement, they were no longer jubilant, realizing it could still take months for them to reach...
...some has-beens and never-would-have-beens in major league uniforms and see what happens. Well, the fans stayed away--only so many of us remember Butch Metzger, a pitcher who resurfaced 17 years after his last major league appearance. And the baseball was pretty drab, with too many groundouts and too few extra-base hits. "Major leaguers have multiple tools," said Marlin pitcher-stockbroker Steve Fireovid. "Most of us have a tool." Tiger manager Sparky Anderson refused to watch it, and the Baltimore Orioles refused to play it, in part to preserve Cal Ripken's 2,009-game...
Finally, there is Ward Littell, another FBI agent and Kemper's protege, a former Jesuit seminarian who works in the Chicago office tracking drab, hopeless domestic communists and hungering for a chance to put his massive idealism to better use. Kemper gives him the chance to do some sub rosa snooping for Bobby Kennedy, thereby condemning a number of people, including John F. Kennedy, to untimely death...
...grace of Lightman's writing in Einstein's Dreams. There, his use of sparse, simple language served him well allowing him to suggest possible worlds through short, carefully chosen phrases, quick touches of color, and imaginative details. In Good Benito, however, his language falls flat and his colors seem drab...