Word: tediously
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...into management, where he became a firm but authority-delegating executive, developing the Times's Western edition last year, then acting as background negotiator and front-line administrator of the paper's skeleton 900-man staff (normally 5.000) during the 114-day New York newspaper strike, a tedious period that broke his health; of a heart ailment; in Manhattan...
Tourists Not Wanted. Aware of such complaints, Hanover Fair directors are making some changes. This year they cut tedious public speechmaking from two days to one. They are considering raising the $2.50 admission price to eliminate tourists and curiosity seekers, but they have not reached the point of discouraging size and superlatives. For one thing, the Hanover Fair is a corporation-and ballyhoo and bigger figures over 17 years have produced an annual 4% dividend for Hanover and Lower Saxony...
...back in a minute with the announcement that she would underwrite the concerts singlehanded. "I had just divorced the ambassador (onetime Ambassador to Moscow Joseph E. Davies)," she recalls blithely, "so I was in funds for the moment." Though she often finds committee work with the symphony "dreadfully tedious," Mrs. May has, over the years, enriched the orchestra with at least a million dollars...
Schecter had his share of roughing it-on the ground, and in the air flying with Borneo Airways "over endless jungles in the worst storms in 30 years." But upcountry among the Ibans (or Sea Dyaks), whose life is simple, tedious and poor, he was greeted with a traditional welcoming ceremony called the bedara, offered a wine to appease the spirits he brought with him, and a brass bracelet to signify friendship. Schecter cabled home: "I suppose it's work, but camping in a longhouse with bare-breasted girls who gently tip cups of sweet rice wine to your...
Author Greenberg is placed in the ambivalent position of having written a bad novel and a good book. Her plot reads like a combination of Abram's Irish Rose and a study of that tedious 20th century malaise, Lack of Communication. But if her fiction is wanting, her historiography is not. With painstaking care, she has woven each of the skeins of medieval life into a vivid tapestry that shows the loutishness and insensitivity of the baronial landholders, the obtuseness of the peasantry, the twisted fervor of churchmen who found virtue in the wholesale slaughter of heretics...