Word: tediously
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Freedom Rides, which sought to alert the general public to the wide-spread violation of Negroes' civil rights, have done their job. Students are now turning to the more tedious, less publicized task of using this re-awakened public consciousness to secure for Negroes equal opportunities in housing, employment, and education...
Died. George Joseph Maurer, 56, senior reading clerk of the House of Representatives since 1943, a stentorian speaker who could call the roll of 437 members in less than 20 minutes, or plow through a 90-page bill unnoticeably abridging the tedious parts; of a heart attack; in Westfield...
...only advice to the many Harvard people who will buy this book is to learn from my error. Read only a few pages at a time. Richard Bissell and Harvard College become very tedious if one sticks with them too long...
...offer to allow inspectors to verify the dismantling and removal of the Soviet missiles, even though in the end, the U.S. may not be able to rely on outside inspection in Cuba. The West's insistence on inspection has always been a stumbling block in the tedious talks on a nuclear test ban as well as on general disarmament. There is no real reason to believe that this adamant position has changed; it is one thing to agree to let inspectors-and from the Red Cross, at that-on Cuban soil, another to let them into Russia. Still, Britain...
...continues to count on the sudden and miraculous decisions of men like George Wald to teach in the program. To many senior men on the Faculty Gen Ed seems the province of sentimentalists sacrificing valuable scholarly time; to many teaching fellows a jumble of needlessly time-consuming, oversectioned, tedious courses; to many undergraduates a confusing and haphazard attempt to impose stray bits of knowledge. Luckily there are many exceptions, some of them beautiful: for example Wald's decision, or Beer's devices for having his section-men educate each other, or undergraduate enthusiasm for a new course such as Humanities...