Word: uneventfullness
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It was Thursday in New York, a day like other days perhaps, but this day seemed to have a special tantalizing humdrum something. This was not the day Lincoln was shot or Normandy was invaded, not the day Pearl Harbor was bombed or Fort Sumter was fired on. What this...
Fifty years of uneventful French rule were followed by Japanese occupation during World War II and a brief resistance to the French return. During the seven-year Indo-Chinese War between the French and the Communist Viet Minh, however, most Laotian rebels stayed prudently in exile, returning only to take...
Neither a swashbuckler by nature nor a parlor diplomat (he loathes parties, puts up with them only as part of his job), Cabot is known around the State Department as a skilled troubleshooter who works at his job and writes sharp, effective reports. His technical qualifications for Rio include duty...
Clint Walker (6 ft. 6 in.. 235 lbs., 48-32-36), who after a spectacular case of bunkhouse sulks will shortly resume the big hat in Cheyenne, a routine ride-'em-cowboy story, is generally known in Hollywood as "the next John Wayne." At 31 he looks rather...
Frugally, quietly, and keeping her own counsel, Mary Clarke lived the uneventful life of a New England spinster. In 1947 she made her will, and in 1950, at 90, she died. Last week, surprised Smith College officials had good reason to wonder what sort of woman she had been. Spinster...