Word: nondescript
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...inside this quiet, nondescript office---seemingly cut off from the rest of the world-is the nerve-center of the entire University, from accounting to zoology, from Daniel Aaron to Rita Zusman. And, ironically, no staff spends more time on the phone then the dozen women who work in this office: Harvard's information operators...
...little respectful of the official looking velvet ropes. "You've got tv, and you've got movies and you've got records--but it's nice to have something that he actually touched, you know?" Something that was his." She's wearing a pair of nondescript blue jeans and a halter. She's in her late thirties. She hangs back in the crowd, which, as eight o'clock approaches, is well over three hundred. Everyone is meandering. There are Ford salesmen working the crowd. They jump like jackals when you drive up. They get ornery if you walk the other...
Reaching South of the Border via Rte. 74 from Charlotte--a backdoor route--meant missing most of the billboards. 74 starts out in suburban Charlotte, limping from stop light to stop light past shopping mall after shopping mall. Slowly it slips into nondescript country-side, the same scrubby hills that grow up beside most highways. Finally, it flattens and straightens past rolling fields, and a few flimsy shacks sag at every edge. Out of nowhere comes the I-95 interchange; turn on to the highway and suddenly the road is exactly the same as it is in northern Maine...
...talks took place in a nondescript conference room within the walled compound of the Soviet Office of Trade. Seeley Lodwick, Under Secretary of Agriculture for International Affairs and chief U.S. negotiator, described the bargaining as "cordial and frank." The Soviets carefully refrained from castigating the U.S. as an unreliable trading partner for imposing the embargo, although as one U.S. official put it, "I am sure they are thinking it." The Soviets, however, gave no indication of just how much of the 6 million additional tons of grain they might buy before Sept. 30. Moscow has satisfied nearly all its grain...
...woman whom I had noticed before, and I had been ashamed of her. She was a stringy little black woman. She looked as if she were a hard drinker. Flat black face with tight features, dressed in a tight boy's sweater pulled down over a nondescript skirt...