Word: ennui
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Boredom prompts men to take pride in goldbricking, inducing added ennui. Even the crack 120th TFS at Phan Rang has an accountant and a graduate in English slinging hash, a school principal pulling security guard, and a Denver assistant district attorney slaving as a clerk in the base legal office...
This threat, combined with mounting exasperation and ennui on both sides, finally forced an apparent settlement...
...ennui could be dispelled if the course followed a program it developed two years ago for its better students. Middle-group sections on topics like "Exposition and Scientific Methods" and "Exposition and Autobiography" have been over-applied, well-taught, and successful...
...stubborn, even violent individualist. Smug paternalism at home did not wear nearly so well as posturing abroad. The Gaullist panoply gradually began to enshadow and constrict every aspect of French life, from politics to morals, painting to fashion. The rhythm of French existence perceptibly altered. Hints of ennui crept in?and boredom has always been underrated as a revolutionary force. Paris was no longer the most richly alive city in Europe. Looking beneath the glittering surface of Gaullist France as long as two years ago, Yale Professor Henri Peyre, an astute France-watcher, sensed that the French, after "a prolonged...
...will be an exciting and spirited contest right up until the last." Nixon did his bit to support the first half of his prediction by attracting an impressive total of 502,000 votes in the Indiana Republican primary, where his only opponent in the uncontested race was G.O.P. ennui. Nelson Rockefeller was trying manfully to supply the excitement elsewhere...