Word: laboredness
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As the week of crisis went on, the Argentine public-though both ashamed and apprehensive-went its way. Thousands jammed the soccer stadiums and the race tracks. All the while the military argued to exhaustion, divided over two propositions, one side arguing: "Let's get Frondizi out first, then...
Nearly 35,000 people contributed in substantive ways to the space flight of Astronaut John Glenn. Besides his fellow astronauts and a staff of 2,000 at Cape Canaveral, 15,000 men stood by for recovery or rescue operations on ships stretched across the Atlantic, 500 technicians manned 18 tracking...
The Perelman pieces I always liked least were those in which he would take some real or imagined news release and construct an episode around it, to point out its utter absurdity, All too often the absurdity was quite evident at the outset, and the pieces were eminently predictable. Flailing...
The purpose of such visits should be an exchange of outlooks and values, but there are two pitfalls which must be avoided. One obstacle to a productive exchange arises when the visitor feels compelled to become an academic, and delivers labored, often pretentious lectures in a pseudoscholastic vein. This is...
Criticism. In the Congo. La Générale laid railroads, carved out mines, raised skyscrapers, put up company towns, paternalistically taught its workers to eat off plates and even sent some through high school (but no farther). When freedom-and chaos-came, La Génerale labored to...