Word: tedious
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hotel room waiting for telephone calls that might never come, or under street lights at secret rendezvous points. For appointments that might never be kept. For the big brains of the fedayeen are not down by the riverside, but in and around Amman. To find them is tricky and tedious. Because of their inbred sense of secrecy and sheer disorganization, it is nightmarishly hard to get these people to cooperate on a project like ours. All we wanted was to know all about their secret bases, their secret techniques, their secret identities...
...muscles, normally located slightly above the inside of the knee, and bound them around the ligaments for added support; Hanratty's injury did not require such drastic measures. But both men look forward to a long convalescence. Six weeks in a cast is standard, followed by months of tedious exercise. Eventually, Hanratty and Sayers will be able to play again-but how well...
...Special Breed of Men. Norwegian whalers first sailed into the Antarctic in 1904; for years after that, their voyages sounded like something out of Herman Melville. The trip to the whaling grounds took a tedious four weeks. The seas were awesome and the food terrible. Even seasoned sailors were sick much of the time. Once the hunt began, they had to face not only danger from harpooned whales but also the nauseating stench of whale processing. The returns, though, made it all worthwhile. In a good year, Sandefjord's seamen earned more in six months than a landlubber could...
...thin version of Palestrina's Supplicationes for main chorus and responsive small choir (which joined me in the Tibetan heights of the upper balcony) and proceeded to good performances of Holst's delightful Blacksmith Song and Dowland's beautiful Come Again, Sweet Love. Their part closed with a stupendously tedious arrangement by Fenno Heath of Donne's Death Be Not Proud. The Harvard Glee Club performed a less interesting program except for a mildly "modern" work by Thomas Beveridge. The Harvard group had a darker sound than Yale, better dynamic control, weaker top tenors, better phrasing, and better comic relief...
...What You Eat--A tedious romp with Tiny Tim and friends that is much less fun than Beach Party. At the KEN-more, Kenmore Square...