Word: boredome
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...track," Diana explains. But she finds that even in a virtually all-black school, just maintaining order among the non-learners keeps her from working with the 5% of the class, again mostly black, who can read well and want to learn: "They just sit around and die of boredom while I try to keep the other kids from fighting...
...refugees now living at Eglin, 5,000 have been there since the center opened on May 3. Arkansas' Fort Chaffee remains filled with 18,800, Indiantown Gap Military Reservation, Pa., holds 15,000, and the just opened Camp McCoy near Sparta, Wis., has 172. "The boredom is overwhelming," complained Luis Martinez, an engineering technician who has been at Eglin for more than two weeks. "All you can do is worry, worry, worry...
While they spoke of political oppression in Cuba, they often seemed even more concerned about the scarcity of jobs, food and clothing. They complained of the dreariness of life on the island. Neither poverty nor boredom, of course, met the legal requirements for entry into the U.S.; yet many of the refugees offered poignant reasons for their flight. Some examples...
...instead of a room. Hazzard reminds us of the typical misery of the city-world we live in: the "sleazy inevitability" of industrialized loneliness, among "the freakishness, fads, and obscure forms of endurance," the "ceaseless milling in anonymity and extreme loneliness, with little reverie and no peace," and the boredom of living in a world that is all a "costly shambles ruled by tax laws," where "existence has to be turned over to the experts...
...late President's elder brother Frank and the former Foreign Minister, C. Cecil Dennis. In all cases, the charge was the same: "High treason, misuse of public office, rampant corruption, and gross violation of human and constitutional rights." While the five officers on the tribunal looked on in boredom, the defendants tried to speak above the clatter of a typewriter. They had no counsel. As some of the defendants began to testify, they were admonished by the tribunal chairman, Colonel Frank Senkpeni, to "keep it short...