Word: nondescripts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...often, you depict every run-of-the-mill, nondescript, Caspar Milquetoast, blend-into-the-woodwork type gangster as looking like a bank clerk. And now Eichmann! Come, come, TIME. Where are you doing your banking? Surely not out here in the West, where I am married to a banker who looks like a gangster...
...Society is indestructible. After every major upheaval-war, depression or graduated income tax-the cry arises that Society is not what it used to be, and Amory divertingly traces this plaint all the way back to the landing of the Mayflower. That sacred vessel, reports Amory. carried a nondescript list of lower-middle-class passengers, plus a sprinkling of servants; and not a man in the lot could sign himself "Gent...
...apparent need for easing the economic and social aches and pains of Latin America took concrete form last week in a set of redecorated offices in a nondescript building in Washington. With a ceremonial round of martinis, pisco sours* and Brazilian coffee, the Inter-American Development Bank declared itself ready for business at 801 Nineteenth Street. No sooner were the doors open than the loan ideas started pouring in. What could the bank do for a dietetic laboratory in Mexico? How about a farm machinery credit house in Chile...
...Congolese Premier Patrice Lumumba it was a week of humiliation. Lumumba's first setback came from the hands of the 13-nation African "summit" conference he had grandiosely convened in a nondescript Leopoldville auditorium. Lumumba had hoped his brother Africans would promise him military aid and moral support. Instead, delegates from Tunisia, Morocco and the Algerian rebel "government" had a message of their own for Lumumba to hear: they were alarmed by his irresponsible attacks on the United Nations. "Lumumba's childish behavior is damaging all Africans," rasped one North African...