Word: featureless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Empire. Stalin deliberately cultivated the role of the featureless party functionary. He had no private vices; he loved neither money nor pleasure, neither drink nor women. His only vice was public: an insatiable lust for power. This he cultivated with a talent incomparable in modern history, and in a way which certainly contradicts Trotsky's intellectualistic verdict that Stalin was a mere mediocrity. Moreover, his uncanny coolness with the Nazis at the gates of Moscow showed that, whatever else he might be, he was a leader of titanic strength...
...programs can be viewed in all their varicolored splendor on present sets, once they are fitted with a color adapter. Most important, RCA claims that its color telecasts can be received on ordinary sets as a black-and-white image (on ordinary sets, CBS color telecasts are a featureless blurring and streaking). RCA's system seemed built to meet the specifications for color transmission laid down by the Federal Communications Commission...
...latest Sky and Telescope magazine described a great meteor crater recently identified at Wolf Creek in the dry wilderness 400 miles inland from Broome, Western Australia. From ground level the crater is not impressive. Its rim looks like a low, rocky ridge above a featureless plain. Apparently the few who have passed near it hardly ever gave it a second glance...
First Names. Some of his patients call Dr. McIndoe "God"-and partly mean it. They have seen him take charred, featureless living remains and remake them into presentable human beings. McIndoe goes about his surgical repairs systematically. First, if it is necessary, he grafts on new eyelids and lips so that the patient can, at least, sleep and eat. Next he makes new noses, chins and ears. As many as 40 operations may be required, over four or five years...
...world of anonymous, depersonalized robot-men immersed in the processes of technology and disciplined into grey armies of soldier-workers. In the age of the machine, individualism seemed to him a sentimental illusion, morality a superfluous gesture. All that counted in his nightmare world was steel: cold, powerful, implacable, featureless...