Word: tedious
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Next question: Who would boss the tricky U.N. interim administration? First choice of both sides was patient, professional Ellsworth Bunker, 68, who had vainly hoped to go back and relax on his Vermont farm after the tedious, five-month negotiations...
Letting Go, by Philip Roth. The author, lured by the sirens of meaninglessness, gives too much attention to a tedious hero who finds life empty. Still, Roth's eye for irony and ear for dialogue are among the best, and they make his long novel of the university young well worth reading...
Back 100 Years. As the all-important primaries start around the South this week, registration of 26 Negroes in the lonely northeast corner of Louisiana is a typical milestone in the tedious, undramatic campaign for Negro voting rights. While the White House alternately butters up and bemoans the powerful Southern Democrats in Congress, another part of Administration policy is to regard voting-and the political leverage that goes with it-as the key to all Negro rights in the South. Justice Department lawyers are prosecuting 30 voting cases, painstakingly gathering evidence for 70 more. With Justice Department prodding and some...
...hour stretches, then got 1½ hours off for a meal and rest-but no sleep. After two wide-awake nights, the sailors still did well at intellectually stimulating or competitive tasks such as playing chess, darts or pingpong. But they tended to nod at routine and tedious jobs, no matter how simple-like checking a manuscript for typists' errors...
Letting Go, by Philip Roth. The author, lured by the sirens of meaninglessness, gives too much attention to a tedious hero who finds life empty. Still, Roth's eye for irony and ear for dialogue are among the best, and they make his long novel of the university young well worth reading...