Word: nondescript
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...almost unbroken row on noon-lighted bars, cocktail lounges, and saloons that provide the last refreshment to Boston wayfarers on the long, cold trip over the river to the Arlington wilderness. "And not only frappes," the aproned entrepreneur continued, vigorously chewing the remnants of a nondescript cheroot, "but boneless turkey, Saturday Reviews of Literature, razor blades shoe polish, and back editions of the Wake--all at the right price...
...once put an ad in a newspaper: "Wanted: young man to become Heavyweight Champion of the World." The best of the applicants was a nondescript Welshman, who with the help of Johnston's imagination and a dime-store bandanna emerged as Gypsy Daniels, eldest son of a gypsy king who lived at the foot of Rhondda Mountain in Wales. Jimmy also wowed New York's Chinatown with Ah Wong, a "Chinese lightweight" whose real name was Mickey Mulligan...
About one thing which many readers would quickly look for, it said little: the great Soviet Purge trials, at which Trotsky (in absentia) was charged with making a deal with Hitler to overthrow Stalin.* Scores of Old Bolsheviks and a miscellany of nondescript political ganoids dredged from the NKVD prisons were convicted of the same charge and shot. Trotsky contended that this charge had been refuted ad nauseam in his own and other people's writings...
...mans grabbed it, it was an insignificant fishing village; today its 800,000 population is well housed in structures which sprawl over the hills above the best natural harbor in China. Scenically it is beautiful. Architecturally it is wholly un inspiring: late igth Century German colonial, plus nondescript modern Japanese and Chinese...
...lives with his son and daughter-in-law in an old, nondescript red brick house in Washington. There the Admiral has a bare combination bedroom and office. His old painted iron bed, which his daughter-in-law considers a monstrosity, is as chipped as a battleship's anchor. On the walls are a few Navy cutlasses. In a locker ("closet" to landlubbers) is a supply of brandy. The Admiral, who smokes furiously, drinks little, but relishes a nip of brandy in the evening...