Word: tediousness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There was a touch of slapstick in the shot of a delegate dozing off during a tedious speech and being fussily wakened by an aide who had noticed that the TV camera was recording the cat nap. Particularly effective on TV is the contrast between the tuned-down but passionate voices of the Iron Curtain delegates, speaking in their native tongues, and the cool, detached accents of the English interpreters giving a running translation of the speeches as they are being made...
...ritual dance. Almost every non-Communist delegate considers the fact of Albanian and Bulgarian aid to the Greek guerrillas to be as fully proven as the law of gravity. Yet Soviet-bloc delegates insist blandly that it isn't so. At Lake Success last week, after weeks of tedious arguments, Russia's Andrei Vishinsky added a new twist to the choreography. He agreed that the rebels had received arms-but, he said, with a straight face, the arms had come from unnamed groups in France, Italy and Turkey, via "maritime channels...
...actual process of making a pair of boots in a painstaking and tedious one. The pilgrim who travels to 135 Boylston St. gets his foot measured by Papa who insists that the lucky skier wear a properly ftting sock for the occasion. Having got a measurement of the customer's foot, Peter, or one of the boys, selects a "last" (the "last" looks like a solid wooden shoe tree with no hands) nearest the size of the measured foot. This "last" is carefully sanded down or built up with pieces of leather so that it emerges a working model...
Then the job of contacting workers at the various college began. Here at Harvard, Jeremy C. Ulin '49 and Lawrence F. O'Donnell '49, a former CRIMSON editor, now at the Harvard Law School, undertook the tedious chore of enlisting Harvard sympathies for a Boston election. Partly because of the cosmopolitan group here and more because of an apathy even among the Boston residents, the work was slow. Now, O'Donnell reports, there is more interest in Hynes here, but there is still lots of room for anyone who wants to join the group. At Radcliffe, Linda Cabot...
...mysterious extra something called "hybrid vigor": a phenomenal capacity for growth and performance. Actually, the breeder may run through hundreds of combinations before he hits a "nick"-trade slang for a good hybrid. Wallace's nick didn't come until 1942, after six years of tedious experimentations. In one year, he had to throw out 34,000 chicks from a carefully bred flock of 36,000 birds. Many of the rejects were weird freaks spawned by the intensive inbreeding: blind chickens, baldheaded chickens and cockeyed-looking birds whose beaks crossed at right angles...