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Word: boringness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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The probe breakthrough confirmed that French and British tunnelers were within striking distance of completing the first tunnel under the English Channel. Measurements taken through the probe hole showed the two approaches were out of line by a horizontal distance of only 20 in. after huge boring machines had chewed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Europe An Island No More Hello! Allo! | 11/12/1990 | See Source »

My three-year-old daughter is puzzled. Why, she wants to know, did Georgie Porgie kiss the girls and make them cry? "Because he's mean," I say, with a sinking feeling, for how can this be the right answer? As the rollicking little rhyme makes all too clear, young...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Georgie Porgie Is a Bully | 11/8/1990 | See Source »

Still, Feinstein prefers snide references to Wilson as just another boring male pol ("Change is more than exchanging one pinstripe suit for another in Sacramento"). Though sartorial satire by a man about a woman candidate would be regarded as sexist, Feinstein is getting away with it. The latest distracting dustup...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Getting Down and Dirty | 10/29/1990 | See Source »

Like most teenagers, Kissin is a romantic at heart, though his still rather narrow repertoire includes Mozart and Haydn as well as Rachmaninoff and Shostakovich. In Amsterdam last year he was scheduled to play the Shostakovich Piano Concerto No. 1, even though the piece had by then become boring for...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Evgeni Kissin, New Kid | 10/29/1990 | See Source »

For most of its life, Transit specialized in insuring municipal bus lines, cab fleets and reasonably predictable things like that. It made money. But in the late 1970s, the same winds that were beginning to upend the boring old savings industry -- high inflation and high interest rates -- were blowing across...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Not A Sure Thing | 10/22/1990 | See Source »

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