Word: tedious
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Successful Model. Minuteman U. was proposed by the Strategic Air Command to help attract highly intelligent officers for missile control crews, and to enrich their long hours of tedious, isolated duty. Several universities turned down the idea, but Ohio State, which since 1955 has operated the School of Systems and Logistics at the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, agreed to open a branch campus at Ellsworth under a $500,000 contract with the Air Force Institute of Technology. Now rounding out its first year of full-scale operation, the school has been "phenomenally successful," says Major James...
...correspondence seldom strayed far from his own predicament, but it was rarely tedious and frequently charming. A meeting with Yeats produced a conflict between Frost's sharp literary sense ("the man of the last 20 years in English poetry") and his common sense. Yeats thought rural matters quaint and believed in leprechauns, and Frost had just spent nine years rooting stones out of his New Hampshire pasture without any converse with the spirit world. There is a wonderful raspberry at Carl Sandburg ("His mandolin pleased some people, his poetry a very few and his infantile talk none...
Committing the sounds of music to paper is like trying to bottle a moon beam. It is an elusive and often per- plexing art. The mechanics of inscribing notations, for one thing, is such a tedious and time-consuming task that for centuries composers and musicians have been searching for an easier and faster way of writing music. Now Brit ain's Imperial Typewriter Co. Ltd. is of fering just that - a typewriter that types music...
...police decided to attack the relatively undefended and isolated fourth floor. Carrying students to an elevator where they were photographed and booked, the police slowly carried out the tedious task of arrest. It took apparently twelve hours for the police to clear out 776 students from the corridors...
...character in Albert Camus' The Plague devised a strategy for cheating death by making life seem to drag on as long as possible: he did tedious things on purpose, like listening to lectures in an unfamiliar language or lining up at the box office for theater tickets and then not buying a seat. Since French literary inbreeding is both chronic and severe, it was inevitable that sooner or later someone would devote a whole book to Camus' throwaway idea. J.M.G. Le Clezio has in effect done just that, in a first novel that has unaccountably enraptured the French...