Word: nondescript
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...avoid a commotion. Only once since the kidnaping have Elbrick and his wife ventured out for a private dinner with friends, and security precautions turned the evening into a shambles. The besieged ambassador cannot even risk using his limousine. He travels in a convoy of two or three nondescript sedans, choosing a different one each time to confound would-be abductors...
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...game was dominated entirely by the defenses. Each squad could manage only three first downs. For Adams it was the third straight game in which they have failed to score. Dunster athletic secretary Tim Beckett characterized the contest as "a pretty nondescript game." "Neither team moved the ball well." he admitted...
...meets him as a child playing God with potato bugs, and gradually watches him emerge pretty much as a bugged vegetable himself. In a series of widely spaced vignettes, portrayed as through a wobbly hand-held camera, he attends his father's funeral, makes desultory love to a nondescript girl in a hotel room, gets married, has a son, and finally dies. In between, he takes long walks, smokes endless cigarettes, compiles lists, uninventively takes inventories, floats cosmically, and grunts romantically...
...serene faith. For 20 years, Robert Farrar Capon, 43, has been an Episcopal priest in Port Jefferson, N.Y., an old Long Island shipbuilding town on the edge of the Manhattan commuter belt. He lives with his wife Peg, their six children, two cats (named Anthony and Bartholomew) and a nondescript dog in a century-old house adjoining his small white clapboard church. At dinner time, the sweet cooking aromas wafting out of the old rectory hint at the true nature of a man who is no ordinary country vicar...