Word: humdrum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After the long, humdrum postwar years of peacetime garrison and army schools. Smith was marked as a comer in 1931 by Lieut. Colonel George Marshall, then assistant commandant of the Army's infantry school at Fort Benning, Ga. A decade later, Beedle Smith was at Marshall's side, as Secretary to the Joint Chiefs of Staff, when the U.S. entered World...
...Such humdrum realities get little attention from Sukarno, a self-confessed romantic who said last year: "I belong to that group of people who are bound in spiritual longing by the romanticism of revolution. I am inspired by it. I am fascinated by it. I am completely absorbed by it. I am crazed. I am obsessed by the romanticism of revolution...
...next two defendants had lived in the humdrum London suburb of Ruislip as Peter and Helen Kroger. Their modest home was littered with the latest espionage devices, ranging from microdot readers to long-range radio-transmission equipment. The Krogers claimed to be New Zealanders; actually they were U.S. Citizens Morris and Lona Cohen, with a long history of Communist ties. They had dealt with Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, the executed atom spies, as well as with Soviet Colonel Rudolf Abel, now in Atlanta federal penitentiary serving a 30-year term for espionage. The Cohens were each sentenced to 20 years...
Would lace my humdrum life with champagne bliss...
...Israeli Parliament assembled last week for a humdrum budget debate. Then Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion rose and, in a voice breaking with emotion, said: "I have to inform the Knesset that one of the greatest Nazi war criminals, Adolf Eichmann, who was responsible together with the Nazi leaders for what they called the 'final solution' of the Jewish question-that is, the extermination of 6,000.000 of the Jews of Europe-is under arrest in Israel and will shortly be placed on trial in Israel...