Word: tediousness
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With its usual indifference to audience ratings, Radio Moscow doggedly droned forth the entire report, all 20,000 tedious words of it. Then, day after day, while Pravda, Trud and Izvestia printed interminable pages of commentary, Agitprop specialists fanned out across Russia to whip up support among the workers. Russia's bosses were conditioning their subjects to Nikita Khrushchev's plan for the most radical shake-up of Russian industrial organization since the early days of the Soviet regime...
...Term was long and tedious, and a review is even more so. The whole thing was summed up back in November by the Chief Storekeeper of the local ROTC unit. The Storekeeper, who practices the mystic art of Persian rugmaking, claimed that his insights into the future were "too frightening to reveal...
...done. Two weeks later Rikichi returns from the nearest city at the head of an army-of seven samurai. What follows is a sort of military eclogue, wandering and sometimes tedious, as war and country life are apt to be, but flaring up again and again with a wonderfully natural effect of shock and unexpectedness. At the last, victor and vanquished alike, heaving their cutlasses, sink into the muck of the rice fields; and freedom, when it is born, comes staggering up from the mud all men are made...
...very glad and thankful," said Colonial Secretary Alan Lennox-Boyd, to bring "heartening news" to a House of Commons that had been hearing bad news all week. His news: the end of the Mau Mau war. Britain's dirtiest and most tedious war was over, after four years in which 10,505 Mau Mau terrorists were killed, at the price of 1,168 casualties among native and British forces, and close to 3,000 civilians killed or wounded...
...plays follow this form so closely that they might seem a bit tedious. (The attractive landlady is in both plays an almost incredible emblem of self-sufficiency.) But since the two central figures of each play differ so in personality, both expositions of the problem are interesting and seem to have a wide and general significance. In the first play, Margaret Leighton plays a sexually-repressed model, statuesque and "cut out of ice"; in the other she is again sexually repressed, but this time as the whimpering invalid daughter of a domineering mother. Eric Portman is in both cases sexually...