Word: tedious
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Last year at this time, I stuck by friends who sported baseball hats wherever they went and suffered through tedious dining hall debates about the airport's shuttle service and its relation to the Green Monster. Now there's nobody else blowing off their papers for sitting by the black and white...
...glossy picture magazine to be known as LIFE. Just two days before their wedding, in November 1935, her first play, Abide with Me, opened on Broadway. In a review rewritten by the editor in chief and the playwright herself, the play was panned in TIME for its "tedious psychiatry." It closed after only 36 performances...
...were considerably better. The plane, which carried up to 41 scientists, flew no higher than 42,000 ft. on its 13 missions, and those on board were free to move about. But heavy clouds obscured views of Antarctica most of the time, and the flights were a tedious eleven hours long. Observes Atmospheric Scientist Ed Browell, of NASA's Langley Research Center in Virginia: "I sort of likened what we were doing to taking off from the East Coast, flying to the West Coast to do our work, then flying back East to land...
Though estimates vary, at least 7,000 political prisoners are believed to remain in the camps, where they are subjected to a tedious regimen of political indoctrination. Those prisoners, said Radio Hanoi, "are still in the camps because they stubbornly refuse to change their ways...
...very tedious sort of work," Riley said. He said some unexpected complications have added slightly to the expected time for stonework completion. "It requires patience and good skill level," Riley said...