Word: nondescripts
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...Palfrey" to his colleagues, is the one who shapes this story, colors it with his own disillusionments, invites credibility through his own refusal to believe in much of anything at all. And, early on, he drops a crucial hint about what is to come, portraying himself in his nondescript office "while I draft our official whitewash of the operation we called the Bluebird...
...surging mob, clothed in the nondescript chic of their politics and their youth. Posters of red fists, clinched in defiance. A carnival of long hair and bell bottoms juxtaposed against the strict lines and austere faces of the oil paintings in the Faculty room...
...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...