Word: tediousness
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...Gladwyn's arrival as Britain's chief delegate to the U.N. (succeeding Sir Alexander Cadogan) coincided with the return of Russia's Jacob Malik. His polished delivery, his shrewd, easy wit, his telling replies to tedious Malik have made him a favorite of U.N. audiences. A typical TV-fan wire, from Chevy Chase (Md.), read: "You were magnificent in defense of all that is worthwhile in this world." Sir Gladwyn thinks such responses "extraordinary...
...soul-searing troubles (e.g., he was fired from the Yankees after finishing third in 1948) he has developed into a fatherly, genial boss. But with untalented discards and untried rookies, Harris (rejoining Washington this year for his third term as manager) is in for what promises to be a tedious rehabilitation...
There had been no table pounding, no angry words. Every day the company brought in coffee & doughnuts during the afternoon break. A union negotiator enlivened the tedious hours of debate by dumping half a dozen goldfish into the water cooler. Within the first weeks, the negotiators had come to terms on most fringe issues...
Annually would-be artists turn to Fine Arts 12, "The Theory of Drawing and Painting and the Principles of Design." For eight months they construct color wheels and analyze colors, long and tedious exercises which limited creative work to three still lives during the whole year...
...Wall, by John Hersey. The tragic, agonized story of Jews resisting extermi nation in Warsaw's ghetto during the Nazi occupation; a sometimes moving, often tedious novel in diary form which never quite succeeds in recapturing the factual tang and immediacy of Hiroshima (TIME, March...