Word: boredome
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Long lines of Freshmen waiting a turn at the Union's more or less palatable offerings are hardly anything new. During their first few weeks in the Yard, eagerness, hunger, sheer boredom, or some more nebulous force usually impels Freshmen Union-ward just at the hour when the great dining hall first opens its maw. A short period of acclimation, as a rule, yields wisdom of a sort and customers begin to appear in a regular flow from opening to closing hour. But this year with the orientation past, the lines remain...
They might try to escape the boredom of debate and deadlock by fiddling with their pencils, twiddling their thumbs or staring at the floor and ceiling. But one fact the members of U.N.'s Security Council could not escape last week: history was at their throats. The debate was on the U.S. formula for a two-year peace watch by the United Nations on the war-threatened borders of Greece. There, like the pebble that starts an avalanche, even a minor explosion might precipitate events that would involve the world in a third global war. Would Russia, the power...
...Burkhart wins such hard-to-get parishioners with his regular-guy sincerity and his easy scorn of cant or ecclesiastical primness. Once, when a high-school audience began to settle back in boredom at being addressed by a pastor, he told them the story of the girl who called her boyfriend "Pilgrim" because every time he came over he made progress. The principal never asked him back, but the audience listened hard after that...
Sullivan's answer was in character. In a column addressed from Hollywood to "My Secretary, Africa," he asked: "What was the reaction in N.Y. to the Pegler smear? Out here . . . the reaction was boredom. He's dangerously clever, though...
Last year, after the Boettigers had gone, astute Managing Editor Ed Stone found a way to rescue Lynch from boredom and make it pay. Slim had never written much of anything, but he knew everybody in town, and knew how to spin a yarn. Stone set him to writing a Tuesday-through-Friday local column. It turned out to be a wise and whimsical journal about the odd corners of Seattle life, with tales of seamy Skidroad characters, the scavengers on the city dumps and such old Seattle landmarks as the once-grand Globe Hotel. Seattle took the new columnist...