Word: tediousness
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...away. As more and more was removed, the surgeons could see the basilar artery straightening out. They could realize the release of crippling pressure on the patient's nerves. The window in the clivus was sealed with a piece of the patient's own muscle, and the tedious job of putting his delicate structures back in place began. The whole operation took eleven hours...
...armament, the Greek Cypriots have been slowly closing the ring about the Turkish communities by cutting off supplies and setting up roadblocks. In theory, the Turkish Cypriots are at liberty to travel anywhere, but in practice it is difficult. At some roadblocks Turkish Cypriot truck drivers are stopped for tedious "searches," in which their cargoes of fruit or vegetables are unloaded on the ground and sometimes damaged beyond use. No gasoline is allowed into the Turkish quarter of Nicosia. A few Turks make a habit of driving back and forth to gas stations in the Greek sector, where they fill...
...psyches, applecarts and all. That this is the business of a holy man, or an adman, does not deter him. Mailer yearns to be hip, but he is inescapably square. For only a born square would preach the way he does. That is what is exasperating, touching, and ultimately tedious about...
...discharge was caught in the call-up of reservists during the 1961 Berlin crisis. P. S. Wilkinson, the title character of this first novel, follows the same course. It is not good manners to inquire how much further the resemblance can be carried, because P. S. Wilkinson is tedious, self-pitying, unsufferably sensitive, and a prig. He did not enjoy his Army service in Korea. He also does not enjoy the company of his father, memories of school, sex, lack of sex, working in a bank, or much else. Other characters, some of whom might have been interesting, are perceived...
Successful Model. Minuteman U. was proposed by the Strategic Air Command to help attract highly intelligent officers for missile control crews, and to enrich their long hours of tedious, isolated duty. Several universities turned down the idea, but Ohio State, which since 1955 has operated the School of Systems and Logistics at the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, agreed to open a branch campus at Ellsworth under a $500,000 contract with the Air Force Institute of Technology. Now rounding out its first year of full-scale operation, the school has been "phenomenally successful," says Major James...