Word: tediousness
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...very compact message of hope." Members of Washington's foreign diplomatic corps were unanimously impressed. And even the criticism seemed mild. Commented the Los Angeles Times: "He is wrong in implying the beginning comes with him, but he is right in suggesting that the perfecting of mankind is tedious and unpredictable...
...would instantly recognize the background of the composite cover. It represents a uranium atom, one of the pertinent symbols of their tradition-shattering technology. It comes from a glowing model made for a LIFE photograph a dozen years ago by Photographer Fritz Goro. The ten tedious days he spent doing it almost qualified Goro for a scientific degree. Clear Christmas-tree lights, dyed and redyed until they reached just the right shade, were used for the protons and neutrons that cluster in the nucleus of the atom...
...Cabinetmaking. His instructions were succinct: "I want to get the best men I can for these Cabinet jobs, and I don't care if they are Democrats, Republicans or Igorots." Kennedy's lieutenants thereupon set forth on the great man hunt. It was a long, laborious and tedious process, checking out the past performances and future potentialities of dozens of men. There were grumblings that Kennedy was vacillating and taking a long time with the job.* But when he fed out the last of his Cabinet choices last week, there was widespread agreement that he had assembled some...
...made blast. Rawson and Higgins set up a gasoline-driven rotary drilling rig in the middle of Kilauea Iki's cone on the steaming crust of the lava pool. Using compressed air as a coolant, they drilled a 3½-in. hole into the crust at the tedious rate of 1½ ft. every eight hours. The 1,652° heat damaged the diamond bits and jammed pipe threads, forcing a switch to powdered graphite as a lubricant. At nearly 17 ft., Rawson and Higgins added water to the compressed air, found that this speeded their drilling...
During more than a year of tedious negotiating, Hayes demanded 140 separate changes, and Tabler gave in on 124. The changes and delays added $2,000,000 to costs. But to give in on the remaining 16 would throw building costs so high that the project would be uneconomical. Hilton's attorney finally took the fight to the California district court. There last week Tabler won. The court ordered the city to issue a building permit. Appeals by the city may delay the actual start, despite a plea from San Francisco merchants to let the court decision stand...