Word: formless
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...open fighting in Canton's streets, but the struggle continues in the city's outskirts. Gunfire can be heard constantly; occasionally it is punctuated by the sound of artillery. I also heard several loud explosions that sounded like plastic bomb blasts. Army troops, in their drab, formless, olive-green uniforms with red collars and red stars on their caps, are everywhere. Every hour or so, trucks come tearing down the streets, klaxons blaring, full of soldiers with weapons ready to deal with some disturbance...
...noted that the Communists had mounted "a systematic campaign" to end the U.S. bombing of North Viet Nam, "without any corresponding military action on their side." All they have offered, he emphasized, is "talks-talks which are thus far formless and with out content." Without some reciprocal move from the North, said Rusk, the U.S. has only two choices-to hit Communist supply trucks before they reach the South, or to "pick this ammunition out of our men." He squelched reports that negotiations were imminent. "All channels remain open and are being utilized," he said. "Unfortunately, I cannot report...
...Formless and confusing as the campaign was, neither party underestimated the importance of the outcome. If they were to have much hope for 1968, the Republicans had to regain most of the 38 House seats they lost in 1964, pick up a couple of governorships and perform well in the contests for some 6,800 state legislative seats. Otherwise, as House Minority Leader Jerry Ford put it, "there won't be anybody who will want" the Republican presidential nomination. Lyndon Johnson insisted bravely that a loss of 40 or 50 House seats would not "adversely affect the Government program...
...short, fat, gap-toothed, messy, and, according to one contemporary, had "the face of a pantler, the general look of a cobbler, the girth of a barrelmaker, the manners of a hatter." Estimates of his work were hardly more flattering: Sainte-Beuve dismissed his style as "prolix and formless, slack." The author of La Comédie Humaine, that panorama of post-revolutionary France, died up to his chins in debt to his mother, wife, sister, mistress, gardener and the village constable in Ville-d'Avray. Now the world stands heavily in Balzac's debt...
...reader "Platz means place in Jewish and German. It also means to burst." "The Mexican Pony Rider" is also a pseudonym; behind it, an unnamed juvenile delinquent prowls Manhattan, fancying himself a blend of pony-express rider ("Nothing bugged them") and Marlon Brando in Viva Zapata! These formless reveries might make source material for an analyst, who is paid to listen...