Word: tedious
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sterile air passes constantly through the rearing tank. A milk formula is slipped in through a sterile lock. Already inside are sterile eye droppers with rubber nipples. Every hour, 24 hours a day, the young animals must be fed by hand, always by the tedious process of working through a rubber gauntlet. Monkeys, with the longest "nursing" time, are the costliest animals to raise. Pigs are better: born with their eyes open, they are not a feeding problem, and when only six weeks old they are the right size for experimental surgery which may later be adapted to man. Small...
Sophomore Standing is absolutely unique. But it is also a part of the tradition of Harvard's making of educational policy, and one can learn more lessons by viewing it as an example than as a single tedious process of fighting over an immensely controversial program...
...neutral and independent Laos" and some sort of watchdog commission to prevent any outside interference. As the conference began, there wasn't a ghost of a chance of getting anything like that. Some cynics suggested that the best thing the Kennedy Administration could hope for was a protracted, tedious session that would disguise with boredom what was happening to Laos. Secretary of State Dean Rusk plans to turn the whole chore over to Roving Ambassador Averell Harriman as soon as possible and head for home...
...drilling for oil at Chicken Springs, Wyo., construction workers uncovered the bones of a Columbia mammoth. A team of Harvard students working in Wyoming under the direction of George Irwin 1G and Cynthia C. Irwin 3G quickly joined a crew of University of Wyoming professors and students in the tedious work of digging in the swampy...
Even after the tedious training paid off in a perfect flight, Shepard's ordeal was not over. "Debriefing" (Pentagonese for careful questioning) began the moment that he landed on Lake Champlain's deck. Doctors hustled Shepard to the admiral's cabin, where they first let him talk away his effervescent enthusiasm. Then, while tape recorders continued to catch every word, they began questions designed to collect scraps of information that the space traveler might have gathered. Relief came when Shepard was summoned to the bridge; President Kennedy was calling by radiophone from Washington...