Word: nondescript
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...shedding of divine status came naturally, perhaps, to a man who had never seemed at home amid the panoply of godhood. Instead of the ornate Imperial Palace, Hirohito chose to live in a nondescript two-story Western- style house deep inside the palace grounds. Rather than hold court in resplendent formal dress, he preferred to putter around in battered Panama hat and short-sleeved shirt. More than formal dinners, he relished quiet nights at home with Empress Nagako, now 85, a cheerful wife with whom he had two sons and five daughters...
...where to inscribe the first appointment of the New Year? Like a condemned man fantasizing about a reprieve from the Governor, I riffled through my woefully nondescript black vinyl 1988 Daily Planner praying that somehow it contained extra pages for the first week of January. Instead, with fear and trembling, I peered into the abyss: a blank daily entry for New Year's Eve and then no more. Nothingness. Maybe I could take the cowardly way out and try to recycle the pages from last January. But there in big block letters...
...Swank," the old Washington Evening Star called it. Forty years ago, Mayfair Mansions in Washington was one of the nation's most desirable housing developments for middle-class blacks. Today it looks more like a wartime concentration camp, with nondescript red barracks buildings and desolate open areas of dirt and patchy grass...
...Gordon Gekko in the movie Wall Street. Instead, it serves as a model for the unglamorous way he thinks business should be conducted. The only frill in his office is a Persian rug. Icahn manages his frenetic investment ventures with a staff of just eight, who scurry about their nondescript cluster of offices with no pretensions of power, eat lunch at their desks and do not bother to use intercoms. Says Office Manager Gail Golden: "We holler back and forth...
...Island is located on Revere BeachBoulevard, a 10-minute walk from the nearestsubway stop. It is a nondescript red brickbuilding lost among the bright neon lights andbars that face the beach...