Word: boredome
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...better President than he has often been given credit for. and Carter's accomplishment in making himself a national figure is formidable. Yet, neither candidate has a passionate following, defined a single overriding issue. If the number of undecided voters remains high, it might be less a matter of boredom than of confusion. When in doubt, it is easier to profess that it does not matter than to admit to indecision...
...other hand, one could argue that high unemployment rates feed working-class discontent and thus could promote radical revolutionary consciousness. In short, I favor work sharing, not really as a means of promoting participatory democracy but as a means of alleviating the job insecurity, economic distress, frustration and boredom experienced by many working class people in America today. Jeffrey Holman '78 Coordinator, Harvard Students for McCarthy
...uniting. Carter will probably benefit from the court ruling that ended a recall move against Philadelphia Mayor Frank Rizzo. Freed of his major concern, Rizzo can now rev up his city machine on behalf of Carter-Mondale. But in the big industrial states, the problem appears to be boredom with both campaigns and both candidates. In such states, the larger the turnout, the better for the Democrats...
...serious problem: despite the use of grain alcohol, an old but effective deicer, the windshields of MIG-25 Foxbat interceptors were icing up. What had gone wrong? The answer, according to Lieut. Viktor Ivanovich Belenko: Soviet crew chiefs on the ground were drinking the grain alcohol to relieve Siberian boredom and surreptitiously replacing the liquid with water...
...middleaged, neuter male publisher who is a family friend. There is too much drinking, too much smoking, too much acute description of mental states. The author, unwilling to waste a scrap of anguish, views the browned-out scene through the eyes of each gloomy participant in turn. Boredom, peevishness and tobacco smoke solidify into a gel. Everyone has dinner in a restaurant, and it takes a long time to order...