Word: boredome
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Baldwin had complained of boredom in guarding the Mitchells and was assigned by McCord, chief security coordinator for the Re-Election Committee, to monitor the bugs. For three weeks in May and June he typed the conversations and gave them to McCord, who converted them into memos that went, Baldwin contends, to the Re-Election Committee. Baldwin's own involvement became known because he had found the bugging, too, a bit boring, and for diversion had placed a call from the motel room to his home in West Haven, Conn. The motel kept a record of the call...
Work was a theme in most conversations. It was, for these people, an answer to boredom, an elixir for unhappiness, a builder of slumping character and, of course, bank accounts. Surgeon John Sonneland left Spokane mulling over the double dilemma of reluctant kids and make-work jobs. Dr. Sonneland worked as a kid, worked in college, works now with great...
...Republican Convention in Miami Beach, where peace, harmony and utter boredom had been expected to prevail next week, a fight over party reform is now shaping up. With the memory of the Democratic open combat still fresh in the public mind, Republican reformers are aware that their convention procedures may seem to many voters antediluvian, so they are determined to take their case to the convention floor, not only to advance their cause but to enhance the image of Republicanism as well...
Much of the battle for Quang Tri city is the boredom of fearful waiting: waiting for a 130-mm. shell to come crashing in, waiting for an airstrike to soften up a bunker position, waiting for new troops to arrive with more ammunition and supplies, waiting for headquarters to decide whether to attack or, well, to wait...
...have before. He is no longer a regional fringe candidate. As he says: "The other candidates are speaking in different tones of voice about me than they did four years ago." Despite the trauma of the shooting, both Wallace and his wife Cornelia show signs of boredom with provincial life in Montgomery and appear to yearn for a larger stage...