Word: humdrum
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...because they thought painting might keep them out of mischief, artists in the armed forces were sketching away at odd moments long before Pearl Harbor. But this year the War Department's Office of Special Service has discovered that U.S. fighting men take a new pride in their humdrum daily tasks when they see them selves and their work immortalized on barrack-room canvases, mess-hall murals. Today, many big U.S. Army camps have their own art classes, and art workshops and army art have become the province of a special office in Washington's War Department...
...reached 15,000, were coming in at the rate of 800 a day. A "wing commander" had been appointed in every State. CAP said it could use some 100,000 non-flying recruits: as ground crews, as drivers to taxi Army pilots from railroad stations to airports, in humdrum but necessary office work...
...high-school students (TIME, July 19, 1937), her neighbors in Saugus, Mass. signed petitions; students picketed her detractors' homes. She saw her picture splashed over the nation's front pages. Columnists glorified her. Out of the notoriety came a screen test-a chance to escape the humdrum life of a schoolmarm...
Under the fog, under the warmth, the daily life of the U.S. went on-the same old life with its humdrum murders and routine tragedies, its drives in the country and its arguments about Roosevelt, its arrests and hot tempers-inhibited, half-sad and half-contented...
...love affair which ended bruisingly. He had insomnia. He worried about his money. His humdrum associates, his stupid wife, his monotonous life suffocated him. Gasping for freedom and solitude, he decided to seize them forthrightly, converted all his securities into cash and disappeared...