Word: nondescript
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...photographs, too, are disappointing. Though some are very dramatic, most of them are nondescript. What's worse, there are too few line-ups, too few faces, and what ones were printed are too often labeled with some cute phrase rather than names. It is of course impossible to run firing squads of such vast groups as PBH, but surely it is not too much to expect a picture of the whole football team, of the Advocate staff, or of the Harvard Young Democrats...
When Thompson died at 48 (in 1907, of tuberculosis), his sole belongings were "a few old pipes and old pens lying in a tin lid" and a nondescript collection of clippings from the Daily Mail (e.g., "Mikado Airs on Japanese Warship-Amusing Scenes"; "The Milk Peril, What Hinders Reform"). But by then, thanks in good part to Editor Meynell (who lived on until 1948), he stood second only to William Butler Yeats as the foremost lyricist...
...Lampoon's stories are at best nondescript. They are all carefully and elaborately built around a single, and not particularly amusing, gimmick. They contain too few bits of inspired phrasing or deft writing, and they die slowly of their own weight. On the brighter side of the 'Poon's prose efforts are Satires on the Boston newspapers and the Saturday Evening Post. They are short and lightly written...
Some 40 miles north of Seoul, the swift-flowing Imjin bangs its winter load of ice chunks against steep banks. Tucked into an S-curve of the river is a brown, double-crested ridge, much like the other nondescript brown lumps in the hill chain beyond. Between the two crests is a saddle, about 50 yards wide, not more than 300 yards long. One of the crests is called Little Nori; the other, 40 feet higher, Big Nori...
...story of almost suicidal ROK bravery, of heavy enemy losses, and of heavy ROK losses. The Reds were still fighting the war of attrition, apparently profitable to them, that began nine weeks ago on White Horse Hill, then switched to Triangle Hill and Sniper Ridge, then to the two nondescript brown lumps called Little and Big Nori...