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Burroughs, who was born Feb. 5, 1914 in St. Louis, Missouri, graduated the College with a degree in English. After graduation he began a period of what he would later call "aimless drifting and boredom." After being dismissed from the Army for physical reasons after only three months, he spent the early 1940s in Chicago and New York working as a private detective, bartender, exterminator and newspaper reporter...
...seems to have begun with boredom on a desperately muggy afternoon a few days after school let out for the summer. Nicole wanted to get out of the house and did so by lying to her father, telling him she had a baby-sitting job. Instead, she met up with her boyfriend Michael Carter and their close friends Dustin Kaiser and Mike Tester. For Nicole and Carter, it was a reunion of sorts. For two weeks, Carter had been holed up in a juvenile-detention center for taking the truck of his mother's live-in boyfriend, among other things...
...dance. Some of us hadn't seen each other in years, but conversations drifted back to where they'd paused. Suddenly we found ourselves with some breathing room. Suddenly we realized that the cycle was not completely closed, that we had a break before plunging into lives of corporate boredom. Suddenly we felt free, with everything wide open and with bold new directions to walk...
...president of ABC News, while Lieut. Flinn, who had an affair with a civilian she initially didn't know was married, faced dishonorable discharge and 9 1/2 years in prison. Does it make sense to throw 65,000 young women together with several hundred thousand males, under immense stress, boredom and loneliness--then also raise the bar on sexual misconduct far above where it is in society in general...
...days of more boredom than terror, of carry-out food and no showers, had undercut the morale of rebels and prisoners alike. But it turned out much worse for the rebels, who had become dispirited and inattentive. "This will never end," one of them complained to a hostage the day before the rescue. "They were most ready for a raid after midnight or at 6 in the morning," says Gumucio. "They never expected something in broad daylight...