Word: tediousness
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...make and mesh their own rules. Navy gun crews had to be taught how to fire at beaches instead of at ships; marines had to learn how to scamper down rope cargo nets, what to do once they had waded ashore. They learned the tedious but vital facts of combat loading...
Mireles claims that the chief obstacle to learning a foreign language is the idea that Americans can never learn to speak them fluently. He says that this certainly is not true of Spanish. Mireles insists that language classes must not be tedious. Conversation is the main thing. Texas teachers start off by making the sounds of Spanish vowels. On the second day of school third graders greet each other in Spanish. Children talk about their ages, games, homes. Gradually their vocabularies expand. Pupils learn how words and phrases should sound, not abstract rules. Formal grammar comes in high school...
Eduard Benes had a tedious journey. Weather held up his plane at Bagdad and again farther along the line. Finally, at Moscow, he found a station festooned with flags and spread with red carpet, a welcoming delegation headed by Foreign Commissar Viacheslav Molotov, Marshal Klimenti Voroshilov, a guard of honor...
Lovers and Friends (by Dodie Smith, produced by Katharine Cornell and John C. Wilson) is Katharine Cornell and Raymond Massey adroitly wasting their time on a tedious drawing-room comedy of English puppet love. Dodie Smith, who in Autumn Crocus and Call It a Day wrote agreeable matinee folderol, in Lovers and Friends has worked out one of the oldest problems in sexual geometry on a theatrical abacus...
...hill; cheap plaster of a poor domicile ennobled by light: yes, petty, if you like. But unless we care about such things, French things, domesticity, dancing, landscape - unless we care far more whole heartedly than we did in the last interval of peace - we shall never maintain the tedious vigilance and take the great trouble necessary to prevent war again, and again and again. Let every author on earth write an All Quiet on the Western Front: still it will not suffice, unless we all warmly feel that our ways, pleasures and sentiments and arts, are worth whatever...