Word: nondescript
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...model, lean and remote, seems rapt in some asexual trance. She walks with a swift, gliding walk, and twirls once, as a girl assistant in nondescript black announces in a flat, noncommittal voice: "Colombine, quarante-et-un, fawr-ty-wan." The model hovers, slips off the jacket and hands it to the assistant, who accepts it in silence, impersonal and invisible as an attendant on some ancient hetaera. The stolid faces stare C'l listen for a certain quality of silence." says Dior). The model twirls again and is gone...
Premier Ali, at the head of a nondescript coalition government, stays tenuously in power only because of Sukarno's sufferance. The most powerful Moslem party in Ali's coalition called for his resignation, but the specter of open army revolt in Sumatra finally held a cabinet together: it might be disastrous to the young nation to let an army mutiny bring down a government...
...baseball crowd was not sufficiently satisfied until Ted Williams, after again proving himself one of the great ballplayers of all time, condescended to spit at them, one and all. But this winter the fans are having a miserable time. Night after night, as they troop into the hugely nondescript Boston Garden, they find nothing to grouse about. Reason: the Boston Celtics are bouncing along toward the National Basketball Association title, and the Boston Bruins, after seven seasons of mediocrity or worse, are skating hell-bent for the National Hockey League championship...
...however, could not have drowned out the rhythmic and almost percussive phrases of the Preger "Sanctus," a work of dubious musical worth, and even less liturgical relevance. Completing the serious part of the program were Dvorak's charming "Maiden in the Wood," and Milhaud's "Psalm 121," a rather nondescript work sung in a nondescript manner. A humorous song, "Casey Jones," provided the transition to a rousing series of Harvardiana, in which all participated. The Freshman Glee Club sings next Tuesday. We should pray for a windless Harvard Yard...
Trai Mitra was a poor parish, its only material blessing a nondescript Buddha which stood under an old tin shed, and for years the abbot had been trying in vain to get old Kamthorn to do something about it. The Year of the Goat turned the trick. Kamthorn donated $35,000. A new temple was built, and workmen set about moving the statue into its new home. But the goat was still at work, and in the midst of the heavy task the workmen's cable broke, and the Buddha crashed to the ground, badly cracked. To the priests...