Word: tedious
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When returned missionaries told him sad tales about time-wasting, tedious travel through deserts and jungles, Businessman Bob decided to speed up foreign missions with a Missionary Flying School...
Ahead lay coastal Tutong, 25 miles away, then the Seria-Miri oilfields, a rich prize 25 miles further. But beetle-browed Lieut. General Sir Leslie Morshead, tactical commander, was not deceived by the easy beginning. Ahead lay rivers, mountains, swamps and lurking Japanese. Predicted Morshead: "A tedious and arduous campaign-the real fighting is yet to come...
After six weeks of tedious negotiations and a scattering of strikes (19,000 miners out in 235 mines), the soft-coal miners and operators signed a new contract. On its face it was a give & take proposition. Actually it was a fair victory for the miners and their shaggy, barrel-shaped boss, John L. Lewis, who had asked for a lot and wound up by getting quite a little...
That Ruth Gordon has brought little originality into her first comedy is not disturbing; dialogue and mechanics modelled after Kaufman and Hart are bound to be good. And while a season in New York should have smoothed out some of the tedious bits in the book, the basic situation of "Over Twenty-One" is still timely and Miss Gordon's acting is still appealing...
...tedious parts of "Over Twenty-One" stem from two basic facets of the plot: PM is a very earnest, liberal, crusading paper, and getting that idea across, without mentioning names, involves throwing around a lot of loose (and slow) talk about what we're fighting for. In addition, there's the problem of showing how technical and complicated are the tasks faced by over-aged destroyers. All this leads to tedium, though it's certainly kept down to a minimum--nothing like "Decision" or "The Searching Wind...